Tyler Perry's character works in the construction business. In real life, Perry was a construction worker before hitting it big in plays and movies.
This is the third movie in which Alfre Woodard and Sanaa Lathan play mother and daughter after Love & Basketball and Something New.
This film was the second women's "road" picture, in just two years, for Kathy Bates, after Bonneville (2006).
Sanaa Lathan, Alfre Woodard, and Tarajii Henson all appeared in the movie Something New.
At 59:41, the woman on the right of the screen lifts her drink as she looks right at the camera for a split second.