The lunch box that Professor Wooley hands to Rudy/Oliver inside the limousine bears a Star Trek title and also a photo of William Shatner as Captain Kirk. William Shatner plays this movie's bad guy "Michael Galewick". Also there are other Star Trek items in the film: Federation badge logo on pajamas and an Enterprise shaped telephone.
Michael Gatewick has a copy of the book "Greed Is Good" by Gordon Gekko, a character from Wall Street (1987).
The film takes place in July 1996.
Jonathan Jackson (Rudy Gatewick / Oliver Gillis) and Richard Lee Jackson (Douglas Gatewick) are brothers in real life.