At the wedding banquet, the girl who speaks to Dustin Hoffman and Dame Emma Thompson ("You do know this is the children's table?"), was played by Gaia Wise, Thompson's daughter. Writer and Director Joel Hopkins' daughter is also seated at the table.
Dame Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman worked so well together in Stranger Than Fiction (2006), they wanted to do another project together, and got involved in this movie.
The screenplay for this movie was featured in the 2007 Blacklist; a list of the "most liked" unmade scripts of the year.
Dustin Hoffman and Dame Emma Thompson appeared in Stranger Than Fiction (2006) and The Meyerowitz Stories (2017).
Dustin Hoffman is twenty-two years older than Dame Emma Thompson. At one point, her character mentions her father having a heart problem. Hoffman is only eight years younger than Thompson's late father Eric Thompson.