On Twitter, Richard Dreyfuss wrote, "I had so much fun with Jenna Elfman during 'Krippendorf'. The movie was not very good, but we had some fun."
On the set of this film, Richard Dreyfuss was interviewed for The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' (2001) and he appears in this feature length documentary in the make-up and costume of James Krippendorf.
When writing the novel upon which this movie is based, Frank Parkin named the protagonist and his family after Klaus Krippendorf, a renowned communications scholar best known for his work on the role of communication in social construction and design. Parkin himself was a highly-regarded sociologist.
When Jenna Elfman's character Veronica sees a promo at Best Buy for the documentary, "The Life of the Shelmikedmu", she walks by a customer holding a VHS copy of Sorveglianza... speciale (1987), another movie released by Touchstone Pictures that stars Richard Dreyfuss.