When Feynman is talking to Bill Graham from his home office, you can see a California vanity plate that partially spells out "TOUVA" on a shelf. Feynman and his friend Ralph Leighton, who transcribed his adventures into the books "Surely You're Joking" and "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" had been on a quest to visit the remote Asian country of Tuva, a country all but inaccessible to Westerners in the late 1980s. Leighton obtained the plate for his car. Sadly, their last, best scheme to reach Tuva fell into place two weeks after Feynman died of stomach cancer.
William Hurt and Brian Dennehy share the screen again 30 years later after their partnership in Gorky Park (1983).
William Hurts character of German is suffering from cancer in this movie. Hurt died of prostate cancer in 2022.
Meganne Young's debut.