Mike Nichols regretted directing this film, which many regard as his worst. It was a box-office failure and was never given a commercial cinema release in the UK.
Mike Nichols and Garry Shandling did not get along well during the filming of this movie. Nichols would get very frustrated with Shandling's method acting techniques.
In the Columbia Pictures logo at the very beginning of the film, Annette Bening's face is digitally superimposed onto the body of Columbia's torch lady. This effect was an inside joke taking aim at the urban legend that Bening is the movie studio's lady who is holding the torch. Columbia Pictures has had a torch lady as their mascot since 1924, and the studio has used the incantation created by artist Michael J. Deas seen in this movie since 1992. However, contrary to the urban legend, New Orleans native Jenny Joseph was the actual model for this torch lady, not Bening.
The 800 number on Susan's realty sign posted in this movie is an actual working number for Coldwell Banker.
Janeane Garofalo: As the nervous woman on the first airplane, and the second woman that Garry Shandling's character hits on when he arrives on Earth.