Shirley MacLaine said in an interview that she found Sir Billy Connolly so hilarious, during one take, she couldn't stop laughing for eleven minutes.
There are 70 producing credits, including nine producers, four co-producers, 39 executive producers, six co-executive producers, eleven associate producers, and one line producer.
The island of Gran Canaria, Spain, where the locations were filmed, is often referred to as a "miniature continent" because of the diverse nature of its landscapes and habitats. In fact, the entire western half of the island is a U.N.E.S.C.O. Biosphere Reserve.
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the capital of Gran Canaria, where the movie takes place, was ranked as the city with the best climate in the world in a 1996 scientific study called "Pleasant Weather Ratings" by Thomas Whitmore, director of research on climatology at Syracuse University, New York.