Jonathan Bennett's character says "stop trying to make fetch happen," a famous line from Mean Girls (2004) in which Bennett has a featured role.
The first Hallmark holiday movie having an LGBTQ couple as the lead.
After Snow Queen (2002), this is the second time that Robert Wisden has played Chelsea Hobbs's father.
Jonathan Bennett (Sam Dalton), also one of the film's writers and producers, described the story as a gay version of the comedy film 'Uncle Buck (1989)'.
Canadian actress Gabrielle Rose (Marilyn DeVito) played the lesbian character 'Edith Strong' in the film 'On the Other Hand, Death (2008)', featuring the fictional gay detective 'Donald Strachey' (played by actor Chad Allen).