Neil Breen is 32 years older than the actress (Jennifer Autry) who plays Leah, his childhood best friend. It's never made clear why he cast someone so much younger than him to play a character of the same age.
The "No more books!" scene took 29 takes. In one take, Neil Breen accidentally cracked a laptop screen while throwing a book.
Although not acknowledged as such, this film is actually a remake of Double Down (2005), Neil Breen's first feature film. Both feature Breen playing a super hacker tackling national and international corruption while pining for lost love.
It takes exactly 30 minutes for the lead character to mention that he's hacking into government computer systems to uncover corruption.
The piles of books are actually copies of The War Within by Bob Woodward.