This is a semi-autobiographical film for co-director Neal Jimenez who became a paraplegic after a hiking accident.
Twenty years after this movie was released, Helen Hunt again played a married woman involved in an extramarital sexual relationship with a paralyzed man in The Sessions - Wenn Worte berühren (2012).
Eric Stoltz spent three months in a wheelchair in preparation for his role in this movie, and stayed in the chair throughout filming as well.