Stars Shirley MacLaine and Nicolas Cage became great friends while filming due to their mutual love of animals and would go on to co-adopt many animals together, including a ferret named Whiskers and a Zebra named Mr. Zed.
The voice of the commander-in-chief, the U.S. President, was provided by the film's writer and director, Hugh Wilson.
The scene in the Secret Service office, where the television shows civil unrest in Agua Dulce, affecting the president in the film (voiced by Hugh Wilson), the footage shown was actual news coverage from June 1992 when President George Bush (Bush 41) was in Panama for a speech. As a mass of protesters were present, gunshots and tear gas broke out, causing Bush to be evacuated.
Official Publicity for the film from the picture's press kit in 1994 declared that at the time of this movie there were more former American Presidents and former First Ladies alive than there had been ever before in the country's history. Director and co-writer Hugh Wilson said at the time that "all of them'' were ''entitled to protection for the rest of their lives" adding "at this very moment there could be a whole contingent of Secret Service people sitting around Lady Bird Johnson's house or driving down Rodeo Drive with Nancy Reagan. The agent in the front seat would have a sawed-off shotgun between his knees."
Hugh Wilson: The film's director as the voice of the President. The character is addressed as "Harold" by Tess Carlisle (Shirley MacLaine) in the movie but in the picture's closing credits is billed as ''President''.