James Garner (Red Stevens) claimed that this would be his final film. It turned out that he made five films after this.
The mayor who performs the groundbreaking ceremony for Emily's Home is actually the mayor of Charlotte, NC, Pat McCrory.
As Jason walks into the hospital for the first time, a voice can be heard over the address system saying: "Paging Dr. Howard, Dr. Howard. Paging Dr. Kline, Dr. Kline. Paging Dr. Howard." This is certainly an homage to a running gag in The Three Stooges short Men in Black (1934) in which the Stooges, as new doctors, are constantly paged over the hos;ital PA system: "Paging Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard". That gag is also used in an episode of St. Elsewhere (1982).
One of the five production companies credited for this film is Stanford Financial Group, the holding company for convicted Ponzi schemer Allen Stanford. This was one of only two known films ever credited to Stanford Financial Group (the other was The Perfect Game (2009)), which was liquidated by the US government in an effort to partially refund bilked investors.
Jim Stovall: Author as a limousine driver. The interesting thing about this is that Jim Stovall is blind.
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