Trivia
The medical condition that Santa Cruz's character Falcon (Jack Armstrong) suffers from is meligiona astrocytoma. An astrocytoma is a malignant tumor of nervous tissue composed of astrocytes.
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There were six wedding cakes made for the wedding scene shoot. One cake was used for a test shot with a stunt woman falling on it to see how it would look. Unbeknownst to director Betty Thomas, there were two wooden spikes inside of the cake for structural support. Fortunately when the stunt woman fell on the cake, she was not wounded.
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A YMCA in North Carolina was used as the Serenity Glen rehab. The YMCA continued to operate during the shooting of the film.
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Most of the artwork in the background of the Parker House group sessions was done by real rehab patients.
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Having sex in the handicap elevator is based on a true story of sex addicts in rehab sneaking off to have sex in the handicap elevator. They thought it was the one place they would not get caught.
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Sandra Bullock would drink a triple espresso before any scene that required her character to have uncontrollable shakes.
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The gum wrapper chain was made by prop master Dean Wilson's wife. It took her two weeks to make three different sized chains.
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