This is a remake of the Columbia film The Reckless Moment (1949), starring Joan Bennett and James Mason, directed by Max Ophüls. Both films were based on the story "The Blank Wall" by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding.
Set and predominantly filmed at Lake Tahoe.
Tilda Swinton, in consensus with the directors, cut her signature long hair to shoulder-length for the first time in nearly two decades in order to play Margaret Hall.
One of the promotional items distributed during the film's release was a notebook with a cover fashioned to look like the license plate of the Corvette driven by Darby Reese (Josh Lucas).