Most of the outside scenes that are not in the fancy neighbourhood are shot in Belgium not in The Netherlands where the movie takes place. The opening is filmed in Brussels the capitol of Belgium.
The film was selected into the Canon of Dutch Cinema in 2007, consisting of "sixteen important and defining movies that show the versatility of Dutch movie history".
The movie spawned 2 sequels and a television series.
This is the only time in the Flodder films when shootings on-location were done for the scenes in Zonnedael. In all other movies and the TV show, a fake neighborhood was used on the outdoor set of First Floor Features. For this film, most of the shots were real, except for the street in which the Flodders have their villa. This street was a set constructed on a velodrome in Spaarndam, more than 200 kilometers from the area where the location shootings were done.
Simon van Collem: the Dutch film critic, cinephile and TV personality plays the man who ends up getting a car in his swimming pool. His wife in the movie is played by Inge Beekman, the mother of director Dick Maas.