1. Both Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman considered the role of the film, and Cruise didn't know about Kidman's joining at the time. Cruise gave up the film, and Kidman immediately signed a paper contract shortly thereafter.
2. As of 2003, the film with the highest investment by Miramax, with a budget of approximately US$79 million.
3. Nicole Kidman performed all her piano performances by herself.
4. In the original script, after encountering the battle of the joint soldiers, Inman stayed behind to clean up the mess with Sara, but Sara's child died, and Sara shot suicide in extreme distress. This is a scene that was deleted in the DVD version.
5. In the deleted part of the DVD, Inman finally returned to Lengshan, accidentally discovering that Georgia was the only person in the house. Georgia told Inman that Ada and Ruby were far away from the mountains, and Inman set out to find them.
6. There is indeed a cold mountain in the northern part of California, located in Pisgah National Forest Park southwest of Asheville. However, there was no and never a small town named after this mountain.
