Trivia

According to Christopher Boyce, the employees in the Black Vault actually did use the paper shredder to blend margaritas.

Timothy Hutton spent six months in Santa Cruz, California learning falconry with technical advisor John Moran. Moreover, Hutton also studied countless press clippings from Christopher Boyce's trial and watched hours of television interviews with Boyce as well as visiting Boyce at Marion Penitentiary in Illinois as research for his role.

Christopher Boyce was released on parole in March 2003. Andrew Daulton Lee was paroled in 1998.

While this movie was being made, CIA agent Aldrich Ames was beginning to engage in treasonous espionage activities, selling secrets to the Soviet Union. Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within (1998) starred Timothy Hutton in the role of Aldrich Ames.

It took director John Schlesinger nearly four years to get this movie made.