At least 9 of the approximately 22 pieces of music from the film were played by Laurence Juber, whose name is listed in the opening credits. Laurence Juber was a guitarist for the band Paul McCartney and Wings, and has released at least 27 solo albums of himself on solo acoustic guitar. In the movie soundtrack, which was never published, he plays a solo jazz style with a trio that includes bass, drums, and occasional guitarist who plays background chords. Even some of the action scenes use this trio instead of classical musicians. None of the pieces of music that are heard in the film and played by Juber have titles that are listed in the credits.
The water channel shown in the film's first scene and last scenes is Bob Sikes Cut, which separates St. George Island from Little St. George Island. St. George Island is inhabited and contains the large housing tract called The Plantation, which contained the Sandcastle residence that was used in many scenes of the film, whereas Little St. George Island is uninhabited and contains only natural areas and a hiking trail. The numerous wooden pilings in the water by the beach where Thelma was walking were still largely intact by 1997, but now are mostly or entirely gone.
The movie that Thelma (Cassie Barasch) and Elizabeth (Ellie Raab) are watching on television in the restaurant, is Dizzy Pilots (1943).
The church, in which Robert (Sir John Hurt) hides near the end, is Trinity Episcopal Church, 79 6th Street, Apalachicola, Florida, located at the corner of 6th Street and Avenue D. This is discernible by its unique altar area with the three stained-glass windows, and criss-cross wooden pattern.
One of the books, visible on the bookshelf from where Robert (Sir John Hurt) pulls a copy of the blackmail prints to show Richard (James Waterston), is "Journey to the End of the Night" (Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1932), the 1962 paperback edition from New Directions, which has the word "Journey" written vertically, and a black cover with a white road map illustration. Another book on the shelf with a visible title is "Asia Awakes: A Continent in Transition" (Dick Wilson, 1970), the 1971 paperback Mentor Book edition by New American Library, which has a dragon head decorating each of the letter "S"s of the title.