Colombian actress Catalina Sandino Moreno said in an interview with Reuters that she struggled with her decision to be naked for the first time for the sex scenes because she didn't have a "Hollywood body." "I'm not that skinny. I will never be that skinny. So it was kind of weird. I'm not perfect, I have this," she said, grabbing her thighs. "Then I realized every time you watch a movie where a girl gets naked, it's perfect, she's a model and it's not true. It's not real. It was kind of like a big thing for me to just go for it, to take my clothes off and be me. It was something that I really thought about, to do or not to do. Then I just said ... I'll do it. I'm normal, it's not a big deal."
Mark Webber is only ten years younger than Ethan Hawke and sixteen years younger than Laura Linney, although he is playing their son.
Director Ethan Hawke also wrote the screenplay which he based on his novel published in 1996.
The film debuted at the Venice Film Festival on September 2, 2006, and received a limited theatrical release in the United States on August 24, 2007. It ran for 5 weeks and grossed $137,341 internationally. The film was subsequently issued on DVD in December 2007.
Mark Webber and Laura Linney had previously appeared in "The Laramie Project" (2002), but did not share any scenes.