Trivia

The movie's top-billed A-list male and female acting leads, Albert Finney and Jill Clayburgh, between them have seven Academy Award nominations for acting, and neither have ever won an acting Oscar, with Clayburgh now deceased.

Final feature film composed by music score composer Georges Delerue.

Promotional materials for this picture declared that the film was "From the OSCAR - WINNING team that brought you Driving Miss Daisy (1989)". These were predominantly the lead creative team of that movie's editor Mark Warner, screenwriter Alfred Uhry, cinematographer Peter James, director Bruce Beresford', and top major producers Lili Fini Zanuck and Richard D. Zanuck.

Kyle MacLachlan and Piper Laurie previously starred together on Twin Peaks (1990).

Novelist Josephine Humphreys can be seen briefly on screen in the Chapter Two book store scene.

Josephine Humphreys: Uncredited, the film's source novelist as a woman in a book shop.