Set against the rugged ranchlands of Wyoming, USA; but was filmed in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. The production company licensed the "M" logo of Marion, the design and logos of the police cars, and asked for photographs of police uniforms.
Christopher Young originally scored the film but his score was later rejected and replaced.
Dedicated to Karin Lyberg-Hallström and Britta Olin, Lasse's and Lena's mothers respectively.
In Mitch Bradley's (Morgan Freeman) house there's a painted portrait of a black Civil War Union sergeant on the wall. Freeman played Civil War Union Sergeant-Major John Rawlins in Glory (1989).