The movie's two male leads, Ted Danson and William Petersen, would both later on star as the chief forensic investigator on the popular TV crime series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), Petersen pioneering the part with Danson being his second replacement, after Laurence Fishburne.
This 1989 film features as part of its storyline "Three Weddings and a Funeral", a phrase the movie has been dubbed by some since Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), which was made and released about five years later in 1994.
This film and Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987) were actor William Petersen's first cinema movies outside of the contemporary urban thriller genre. Peterson's previous pictures in this genre were Thief (1981), Manhunter (1986) and To Live and Die in L.A. (1985).
This film, a remake, was made and released about fourteen years after its source original film, Cousin, Cousine (1975), had been first released in 1975.
The film was shot during May, June, July and August 1988.