Actress Alicia Witt's first writing and producing credit on a feature length film (she had previously written and produced a couple of shorts). She had brought the idea to Hallmark about four years prior to its making.
Was the first major network or studio film to go into production in the U.S. after the COVID-19 shutdown. As this was before SAG-AFTRA had its protocols in place, the film's production ended up creating the blueprint for those standards used on all productions thereafter.
Aired as the first of seventeen original films in Hallmark Movies & Mysteries' 2020 "Miracles of Christmas" lineup.
The name of Nate's property development company is Cloverfield Investments, a reference to Cloverfield: Monstro (2008) and its sequels, created by J.J. Abrams. The company's address is 10 Cloverfield Lane, named for the second film in the franchise (Rua Cloverfield, 10 (2016)).
During the opening credits, when Drake Hogestyn's name is displayed, an old movie clip is played. The clip shows a toy train going around the base of a Christmas tree but the clip was inserted in reverse, so the train appears to be running backwards.