The three leads, Michael Keaton, Robert Downey, Jr. and Bebe Neuwirth, worked for a discounted salary, $100 per day, on this film.
Director Michael Hoffman said in his commentary that although they had to shoot fifteen or sixteen takes of some scenes, the cast and crew completed the entire film in twenty days.
The set of Nicky's (Michael Keaton's) opening night play, with its kitchen area, including a small table and red chairs, is physically replicated in the scene when he later visits his first house, where his father lives.
Catherine O'Hara and Griffin Dunne appeared in After Hours (1985), a movie that also takes place in New York City on a single eventful day.