Much of the movie was filmed at the Mohonk Mountain House near New Paltz, New York, a Quaker-family-owned hotel, built in stages from 1879 to 1910. It's situated on the Shawangunk Ridge, which is south of the Catskill Mountains.
On her nude scene, Camryn Manheim said, "It was a mortifying experience to get naked in front of a room full of 50 people, when I hadn't been naked in a room full of one person in a hell of a long time. The only way I was able to do it was by saying to myself, 'If we're ever going to dispel the myth that fat women aren't beautiful, then some woman is going to have to get naked and be beautiful.'"
Aux bons soins du Dr Kellogg (1994) is an American comedy drama film written, produced and directed by Alan Parker, an adaptation of T. Coraghessan Boyle's novel of the same name, which tells the story of the doctor and clean-living advocate John Harvey Kellogg and his methods employed at the Battle Creek Sanitarium at the beginning of the 20th century.
S7:E13 of the sitcom Seinfeld (1989), titled The Seven (1996), a VHS copy of Aux bons soins du Dr Kellogg (1994) can be seen on a shelf behind Newman as he is playing the part of King Solomon in a dispute between Elaine and Kramer over disputed ownership of a bicycle. Placed under The Road to Wellville, is a VHS copy of another movie, Que la chasse commence ! (1994).