Jacob Tierney, Noah Fleiss, and their families attended the premiere, though none of the other actors or crew members did.
It is rumored that the script for Josh and S.A.M. is based on the real-life events in the life of Josh and Sam Rosen in 1990. While not as dramatic, these two brothers embarked on a similar misadventure in Woodbridge, Connecticut, involving a stolen car and police chase following a family squabble. The two were eventually found by authorities hiding in their friend Brad Taylor's tree house. Brad Taylor was reading a book on a bench elsewhere at the time.
Along with Footloose (1984) and the first two Best Of The Best films, is another role in which Chris Penn's character wears a cowboy hat.