In the bar where Patrick and Emma first meet, Patrick toasts Emma as "The Bride". Uma Thurman character in Kill Bill: Volume I (2003) and Kill Bill: Volume II (2004) was "The Bride".
Griffin Dunne stated in an interview that the production company went broke, and the movie went Straight-To-DVD. After that, and the fact his previous film bombed, he returned to acting.
In this film, Uma Thurman is an expert who gives advice to callers of a radio program. In The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996) , she plays a model, who pretends to be an expert, who gives advice to callers on a radio show.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan portrays a firefighter on this movie. He made a previous appearance in The Crossing (2001), as a firefighter that lost his leg during a rescue in a train wreck.
Sam Shepard and Brooke Adams' characters are lovers in the movie. Previously they played husband and wife in Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven.