Anna Chlumsky turned down a role in this film.
In 1995, Howard Stern, on his radio show, said he watched "a movie" the night before, and it made him cry. He then said it was "Lassie" but not the "old one with June Lockhart," but this movie.
Helen Slater and Jon Tenney played a married couple once again in the Will & Grace episode "Moveable Feast."