Actors Tom Guiry and John Heard who play father and son in this movie previously played father and son in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in the episode Disappearing Acts.
Clayne Crawford and James DeBello appeared together in Swimfan (2002).
PJ mentions that his mom Marianne (Laurie Metcalf) moved to Carbondale. Laurie Metcalf was born in Carbondale, Illinois.