Casey's house where everything takes place is in the suburbs of Houston, Texas.
Thomas Jane and Mickey Rourke both appeared in The Thin Red Line which was released the same year as this film. Rourke's scenes were cut from the final theatrical cut of the film while Jane appeared in a few brief scenes.
This film was barely released not long after critic Roger Ebert also lambasted another black comedy which featured a similar tone to this film, Very Bad Things which was released in October 1998 also by Polygram Filmed Entertainment which produced this film. Very Bad Things both ended up being a part of Siskel & Ebert's Worst of 1998 annual list of films for the year.
The late Roger Ebert hated this movie so much, that he almost literally denounced it on his show "Siskel & Ebert" in an episode about movies featured during the Toronto Film Festival in the Fall 1998. He found the movie "disturbing" and his major complaint was racial stereo types and the gratuitous violence that was featured in the film. The film barely came out theatrically and literally went straight to video and cable almost instantly appearing in 1999.
The film is filled with vibrant colors as part of the production design as well as the costumes that include muted colors involving, gray, teal, beige, brown, mint green, burgundy, red, yellow, black and blue.
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