Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were attached to star in this, but dropped out prior to filming.

In a deleted scene, Charlize Theron is listening to the Reba McEntire song "When You're Not Trying To" and Billy Bob Thornton walks out of the bathroom and makes fun of Reba. Charlize Theron throws a picture frame at him saying "Don't make fun of Reba, you motherf***er". The broken picture frame is later blamed on the cat having too much catnip.

Mary Steenburgen, Barbara Hershey, Powers Boothe, and Laura Dern read for parts in the film when it was being cast in 1997.

Patrick Swayze and Natasha Richardson passed away six months apart in 2009, only seven short years after making this film.

The cast includes three Oscar winners: Billy Bob Thornton, Charlize Theron, and Penélope Cruz.