Filmed in 17 days.
Katie Holmes sang the song for the film's end, "These Boots Are Made For Walkin', as well as two songs during the film: :The Wheels on the Bus" and "Holy, Holy, Holy."
The lead characters are often only referred to by their surname (Miss Meadows) or profession (Sheriff) but dialogue exchanges in the film reveal their first names to be Mary and Mike, respectively.
Katie Holmes found the shoes her character had to wear throughout the movie extremely uncomfortable;after scenes where she had to tap dance for extended periods of time,she was reputed to have said that she wished the script would have called for Miss Meadows trademark to have been that she walked around barefoot everywhere.
The bird seen and heard at the end, when Miss Meadows exits her home, is a hawk, a predatory bird.