Trivia

Kevin Spacey does his own singing.

Kevin Spacey was 44 years old when he made this movie, an age the real Bobby Darin never reached.

When the film was being planned by Paramount, executives thought that Kevin Spacey was too old to portray Bobby Darin, who died at 37, and wanted Leonardo DiCaprio instead.

When financing looked as if it might fall through just before filming was to start, Kevin Spacey persuaded Lionsgate Vice Chairman Michael Burns to get that studio on board by driving Burns around in a car and playing a medley of Bobby Darin songs. At some point Burns made an observation about Darin's singing. Then Spacey told him, "That's not Bobby Darin, that's me."

Sandra Dee passed away from kidney failure less than two months after this film was released.