The website "Please-marryme.com" is an actual website that was created for Writer's Cramp and remains active.
Writer's Cramp is based on a true story and real people. The names have been changed to protect the guilty.
Amy's humorous difficulty with longer words is a character trait which is often called Dogberryism (after the character in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing) or Malapropism (after the character in Richard B. Sheridan's The Rivals).
Writer-director Darva Campbell says that she based Amy and Scott on her husband's sister and brother in law.
Writer-director Darva Campbell considers the title for the film to be Writer's Cramp. The distributor insisted on changing it to Breakdowns to push it closer to the beginning of the alphabet.
Campbell Winslow: Son of director Darva Campbell appears as a drummer in the ballroom, and as a "daredevil" in the wedding video.