Phil Mee and Jeanne Chinn, who play the Japanese couple trying to buy a car from BT in office, are in fact Chinese. To get their parts, Mee just said Akira Kuwasawa movie titles and he suggested to Chinn, who was at the same audition, to just blurt out Sushi names.
The film is actually based on a true story where a car dealership in New Jersey was trafficking over 600,000 dollars worth of cocaine a month sometime during the 80's.
According to Daniel Benzali and Director Roger Nygard, the salesmen meetings that take place on every Saturday in the film were "toned down" considerably from what they actually witnessed in a real life meeting in preparation for the film in which they described as being "worse" than what they filmed.
To get into the mood for the scene where Eli Dunker who plays Mohammaed breaks down after learning of his sisters' death asked co-writer Joe Yanetty to give him a large whole cup of coffee to drink. When Yanetty asked him why he wanted to drink so much coffee and Dunker stated that coffee irritates him causing him to break down in tears.
When James Dellsandro and his family show up to Louis Mandylor's office, the family was in fact recruited from a laundromat across the from the actual set because the original woman who was going to play the grandmother did not show up to film the scene and the crew had to quickly gather people to complete it the same day.