Middendorf's Manchac is a real seafood restaurant just outside New Orleans in Akers, La. The restaurant is located at the the base of the I-55 bridge between Lake Maurepas and Lake Pontchartrain.
Prologue: "There are only 2 ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is ... "
Second movie to collab Josh Lucas with director Andy Tennant who directed Sweet Home Alabama (2002).
The Secret (2006) was released as a film in March 2006, and later the same year as a book. The book is influenced by Wallace Wattles' 1910 book "The Science of Getting Rich," which Rhonda Byrne received from her daughter during a time of personal trauma, in 2004.
Jerry O Connell who stars opposite Katie Holmes in this film wrote First Daughter(2004) which also starred Katie Holmes.