The movie's two male leads, Ted Danson and William Petersen, would both later on star as the chief forensic investigator on the popular TV crime series Les Experts (2000), Petersen pioneering the part with Danson being his second replacement, after Laurence Fishburne.
This 1989 film features as part of its storyline "Three Weddings and a Funeral", a phrase the movie has been dubbed by some since 4 mariages et 1 enterrement (1994), which was made and released about five years later in 1994.
This film and La force du silence (1987) were actor William Petersen's first cinema movies outside of the contemporary urban thriller genre. Peterson's previous pictures in this genre were Le Solitaire (1981), Le Sixième Sens (1986) and Police fédérale, Los Angeles (1985).
This film, a remake, was made and released about fourteen years after its source original film, Cousin cousine (1975), had been first released in 1975.
This American Hollywood movie was completely shot in British Columbia, Canada.