The film runs in "real time" meaning that at the moment Jack Gramm is first told he has only 88 minutes to live, the remaining running time of the motion picture until the identity of the person who set Gramm up is exactly 88 minutes.
According to a local source, Al Pacino went to some of the apartment floors to surprise and greet as many tenants as he can during filming around the area.
The movie trailer of the film reveals parts of scenes that failed to reach the final cut, most obvious of which were flashbacks of the trial convicting Jon Foster.
Al Pacino turned down the role of Frank Costello in The Departed (2006) in favour of this film.
Filmed on campus at the University of British Columbia and in Vancouver, BC, Canada