Movie Producer Ismail Merchant, whose work this movie parodies, was offered a cameo role as a merchant, but turned it down.
Emily (Georgina Cates) is constantly berated for not being married at the age of 22. Cates was 22 at the time of filming.
This film is a spoof of the films A Room with a View (1985), Death in Venice (1971), Brideshead Revisited (1981), A Passage to India (1984), and Chariots of Fire (1981).