When Paul Newman discovered that Susan Sarandon was being paid less than himself and Gene Hackman, Newman gave her half his salary.
The movie clip that Harry Ross (Paul Newman) and Jack Ames (Gene Hackman) view briefly toward the end of this movie is of a much younger Hackman, along with Dabney Coleman, from Downhill Racer (1969).
The cast includes four Academy Award winners: Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, and Reese Witherspoon; and two Academy Award nominees: James Garner and Stockard Channing.
This movie was filmed at L.A.P.D.'s Hollywood Division Stationhouse. The police officers seen in the background are not extras, but actual police officers.
Bhob Stewart at allmovie.com states that "the Ames residence is actually the former Cedric Gibbons and Dolores Del Río home, and a never-completed Frank Lloyd Wright house near Malibu (which) served as the Ames' ranchhouse."