Beginning the search for his daughter Nicole, Peter's car is hit by a soccer ball.

He carries a large orange bag into his trunk, and the audience is meant to presume that Peter killed this little girl.

Peter foolishly takes out a gun and aims it at the police officer to try to protect his daughter from McNally.

He finds the girl to be safe and fires Peter's gun in the air, so that he would not be charged for shooting a man unnecessarily.

[2] Kerrigan, who is half-Canadian, shot the majority of exterior scenes in August 1990 in Miscou Island in New Brunswick.

Shooting in New York was briefly interrupted when local police officers believed the filming of a robbery scene was real.

[2] Of the film's plot and ending, Kerrigan commented, "I really tried to examine the subjective reality of someone who suffered from schizophrenia, to try to put the audience in that position to experience how I imagined the symptoms to be: auditory hallucinations, heightened paranoia, dissociative feelings, anxiety.

I set it up that Peter, who suffers from schizophrenia, could be the killer, leading the audience down that path, but I withhold proof.

[10] The film was released theatrically in the United States on one screen in Chicago on March 31, 1995, and grossed $5,900 in its opening week.

"[13] Ebert called Greene's performance one of "great power and nerve" and concluded,the movie is, more than anything else, an uncompromising experiment in creating, for the viewer, an idea of what schizophrenia is like.

The writer and director, Lodge H. Kerrigan, has made a leap of imagination that is both courageous and empathetic: He doesn't see Peter from the outside, as a danger or a threat, but from the inside, as a suffering man who still retains those instincts that make us human, including love for our children.