• The final sound mix for the film was digitally re-mastered at Skywalker Sound, a division of Lucas Digital, Ltd. in Marin County, California.

• Screenwriter Broderick Miller of Los Angeles also wrote the script for HBO's highest-rated original movie, DEADLOCK.

• GRANDFATHER'S BIRTHDAY marks the first time that the father-son duo of Robert and John Prosky acted together in the same scene in a motion picture.

• The original score for the film was created by Paul Hartwig, once a member of the Minnesota-based rock band "Limited Warranty."

• The original story, "It Was Grandfather's Birthday," first appeared in Ann Landers syndicated newspaper column in 1985. Since then, it has become one of Ms. Landers' most requested reruns.

• GRANDFATHER'S BIRTHDAY is the first film directed by Gayle Knutson, a Minnesota native.

• The entire film was shot on location in Marine on St. Croix and Stillwater, Minnesota in June, 1999.