In this film Jack Wouterse is Roeland Fernhout's boss at an insurance company and their relationship is very tense. In the 1998 Van Gogh movie De pijnbank (1998) Fernhout is Wouterse's boss at a bank with the same trouble in store.
The film was largely shot on Curaçao. When the production returned to the Netherlands, it turned out that drug traffickers had replaced the footage in some of the reels with cocaine. With some of the key scenes missing, these had to be re-shot at great expense on the Spanish Island of Ibiza.
The Dutch Filmkrant magazine reported that Theo van Gogh, in typical agitator fashion, placed a large advertisement on the front page of Dutch newspaper Het Parool, urging people to call the "Baby Blue (2001) information number" for more details. The telephone number in question was that of film critic Mark Moorman, who had just trashed the movie, because he was "irritated about everything in it".