The movie was filmed in mid-1997, with a planned October release date. However, when the producers discovered that October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month, they changed the release date to December 1997.
The movie very loosely tracks the history of the real-life breast implant phenomenon, for its radical introduction through its popularity, through the controversial link of its silicone base to various types illnesses and cancers (culminating in the Food and Drug Administration's moratorium on use of silicone in breast implants, leading the industry to use saline implants, instead).
Star Drug Store has been a Galveston, Texas fixture since 1917. Its exterior, with its distinctive ceramic Coca-Cola sign, is seen in several scenes, and Schwimmer's character uses a pay phone in the back of the soda fountain. It burned in 1998, shortly after the movie was released, and was closed for three years, before re-opening in 2001.
The parking garage scene is filmed from the roof of the Continental Center garage, with a building in the former Enron complex in Houston, Texas visible in the right of the shot.
Emily Procter was in a season 2 episode of Friends, the show in which David Schwimmer starred in