While it's true that the workprint's only about 20 minutes longer than the video version, close to a half hour of the video version consists of studio-enforced reshoots. In the work print, Neve Campbell had little more than a recurring silent cameo (they expanded her role when they cut the film's love triangle), the plot with Breckin Meyer's character getting caught stealing from Rubell didn't exist, etc. While some of it's the same, it's akin to the Richard Donner cut of Superman II in that it feels like an entirely different movie.
For those interested in tracking down a copy, it should be reiterated that the main copy of the work print in circulation is abysmal quality. Duped from VHS, the beginning is lopped off, there's no sound for about the first 2 minutes, the picture is dark, fuzzy, and there's a bizarre ghosting issue where the picture seems double-exposed. Weirdly, the ghosting doesn't seem present in the daylight scenes, but annoyingly the bulk of the movie takes place in the darkened club. At some point the movie was transferred to avi so it's pixely in places, and knowing ioffer bootleggers, there's doubtlessly copies that've been transferred back and forth from avi to DVD numerous times. It is watchable if you can tolerate the flaws, but only just barely.
The copy that was screened in 2008 was from a video that the director surreptitiously retained; no idea if it's the same cut as the heavily circulating print or not. I think I spent 12 years trying to find a copy, and have never succeeded in finding one that's good quality. The screen-caps popped up online soon after the 2008 screening, but I don't know of that version ever having been leaked.
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