Although director Paul Lazarus has had extensive directing experience in television before and since this film's release, Seven Girlfriends (1999) is Lazarus' feature film debut as both a director and screenwriter. As of 2022, it is also Lazarus' only dramatized feature film.
Released weeks after High Fidelity (2000) debuted in theaters, which also happens to be about a man down on his luck with love who attempts to contact his ex-girlfriends to see where he went wrong. Writer and director Paul Lazarus came up with the concept of Seven Girlfriends (1999) back in 1989. When Nick Hornby released his novel "High Fidelity", which was the basis of the former film of the same name, in 1995, Lazarus intentionally declined to read the novel altogether to avoid unintentional copyright infringement.
Writer and director Paul Lazarus denies that this film is autobiographical or semi-autobiographical.