A Perfect World Trivias

The song "Sea of Heartbreak" can be heard in this movie, as well as in Heartbreak Ridge, another Eastwood movie.

The photo on the movie poster is not a photo from the film. Never in the movie is Phillip dressed normally (in the beginning he wears underwear and after he wears a Casper the Friendly Ghost suit).

Kevin Costner received top billing over Clint Eastwood for A Perfect World. Incidentally, this was Eastwood's first film since 1969's Paint Your Wagon for which he did not receive top billing.

Denzel Washington was Eastwood's original choice to play the role of Butch Haynes.

When Philip puts his mask on, as dying Butch tells him to, the mask's rubber band goes under his ear. In the next shot, when we see Philip from a longer distance, the rubber band goes above his ear.When Phillip's mother is serving the eggs for breakfast, there is a small cut visible above her eyebrow. Later the cut disappears but reappears freshly when she is attacked.

When Dick Suttle is explaining the features of the trailer, a crew member is reflected in the windshield.When Butch is at Dotty's restaurant talking to the waitress, his glass suddenly goes from less than half full to three-quarters full between shots.

Philip tries to escape from Terry by crawling through a corn field, taking the unloaded pistol with him. In some shots he no longer has the pistol, but nevertheless still has it when Butch finds him.

When Butch is blocked by the police car in the alley he puts the car in reverse and rams the squad car without any damage to his own. In fact, throughout the whole ordeal with the two squad cars he manages to keep the car from being damaged at all.The child in the film, the son of a devout Jehovah's Witness, says "I'm going to go to hell for this," after stealing a Halloween costume. Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe in the concept of hell.

It's implied that Jehovah's Witnesses don't watch television; Jehovah's Witnesses do not have any objections towards watching television as long as its non-violent and non-sexual content.In a scene where the police are getting some candy together, some of the candy is in boxes from the 1990s, a design that did not appear until almost 30 years after the time in which the movie is set.

Director Clint Eastwood originally intended to give the role of Butch to Denzel Washington.Butch (Kevin Costner) and Philip visit a Friendly Dept. Store, outside of which there is a poster advertising Bull Durham cigarettes. Kevin Costner starred in Bull Durham (1988).

Clint Eastwood was not originally going to act in the movie - Kevin Costner talked him into it.'Steven Spielberg' considered directing

Many of the cars used in the film came from two classic/antique car museums in the Greater Austin area.This was Clint Eastwood's first film since Paint Your Wagon (1969) for which he did not receive top billing, which went instead to Kevin Costner.