Rob Reiner cast himself as Artie because he needed an actor who would work for scale pay on short notice.
This was the last on-screen acting performance of Frances Sternhagen when she died in November 2023.
The film earned $4,642,329, in its opening weekend, but earned a domestic gross of $15,160,801, (over it's 10-week run), and foreign gross of $10,151,586, for a total box-office of $25,312,387, against a production budget of $18,000,000
P.J. Hogan was originally attached to direct, with Rob Reiner only as producer, But Hogan left the project and Reiner steps in to direct.