During the filming of the first scene, many of the neighbors were protesting the film because they believed it to be a pornographic film.
After Dawn has researched her "condition" online and hurriedly rides her bike, there are several pertinent suggestive signs visible on the streets, especially a number of close-ups of faceless bodies in underwear, but also a sign promoting a banana split.
Hale Appleman (Tobey) would later appear as a main character, in the TV show The Magicians (2015), as Eliot Waugh. In the episode, Do You Like Teeth? (2018), Eliot and his best friend Margo suggest to a character, that women have teeth in their vaginas that bite, an obvious lie. This may have been written into the script as a reference to his past work in this movie.
When speaking to her step brother Brad, Dawn is seen in a T-shirt with a unicorn decal on it. Unicorns represent both purity and virginity, major themes in the movie.
Italian censorship visa # 101904 delivered on 7 August 2008.