- The screenplay was written by Ronald Bass, who also wrote Rain Man, a movie about an individual with autism. Bass is said to have been inspired by a 1995 article in the Los Angeles Times.
- Movie Goof (factual errors): After Isabelle's suicide attempt, she'd be held involuntarily in a psychiatric ward for at least 72 hours, not sent home.
- Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): In the first group scene, Donald talks about numbers as he stares at the microwave oven countdown. When the camera cuts away from the digital readout, the one/second beep of the microwave can still be heard but when the camera returns to the readout, fewer seconds elapse than beeps heard.
- The project was originally planned for Steven Spielberg, but due to his workload it eventually landed in the hands of critically acclaimed Norwegian director Petter Næss. This became his first US production.
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