- Won the Grand Prize at the One-Take Film Festival. Zagreb, Croatia, 2003.
- Originally, the film was meant to take place in the south, but because of filming locations, it was changed to Seattle.
- The film is dedicated to DP Piotr Sobocinski, who died during filming.
- Originally the movie was going to be entitled "24 Hours", but the title was changed to avoid confusion with the Fox TV show "24" (2001).
- Actress Courtney Love suffered a miscarriage during filming.
- Originally the script called for the character of Abby to be diabetic, but Panic Room (2002) also featured a little girl with juvenile diabetes and as it was to be released first, so Abby was changed to an asthmatic instead.
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- SPOILER: During the climactic highway crash, Charlize Theron releases a woman from the trunk of the over-turned car and then runs up the embankment toward the road, but when she gets there you can see her left leg accidentally slip out from under her due to the wet pavement. According to the director's DVD commentary, though in great pain Charlize forced herself to crawl the rest of the way to finish the scene, but once "Cut" was yelled it was realized how seriously her left knee had been injured and filming was delayed briefly while she was hospitalized.
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