Trivia: The evil man at the nursing home is played by Ben Stiller, then a rising star, in an uncredited role.
Trivia: Kevin Costner made most of his own golf shots in this film.
Trivia: Derek Jacobi played Hamlet in a 1980 BBC production.
Trivia: It took three hours to apply Eddie Murphy's make-up every day for the entire 70-day shoot.
Trivia: Janeane Garofalo who is only just over five feet tall sometimes had to stand on a box so she was in the same frame with Uma Thurman, who is 6 feet tall.
Trivia: Nate Pope (Forest Whitaker) is an Amateur Radio operator with the call sign WB6QLF. QLF is amateur shorthand for "I am sending with my left foot", a reference to someone whose Morse Code sending skill is very bad. This is normally sent as a question "QLF?" meaning "Are you sending with your left foot?" to an operator who is very difficult to understand in Morse.
Trivia: Although she portrays Michelle Pfeiffer's mother in this film, Holland Taylor is in reality only 15 years older than Pfeiffer.
Trivia: In the bar fight scene, there is a brief shot of Michael standing over a man with a trash can lid and mop, and then Michael quickly moves away after that. John Travolta's stance in this shot resembles that of artists' depictions of the archangel Michael standing over Satan.
Trivia: Jenifer Lewis is just six years older than Whitney Houston, despite them playing mother and daughter.