A TV movie made for the HBO network.
Many actors from the cast appeared in several films from the Coen brothers: Albert Finney starred in Miller's Crossing (1990); John Mahoney appeared in Barton Fink (1991) and The Hudsucker Proxy (1994);Beth Grant was in No Country for Old Men (2007); and Brad Pitt starred in Burn After Reading (2008).
Many actors from the cast have ties with Steven Soderbergh films: Albert Finney starred in Traffic (2000) and a cameo role in Ocean's Twelve (2004); King of the Hill (1993), Gray's Anatomy (1996) and was the main focus of the documentary And Everything Is Going Fine (2010); David Clennon was in Syriana (2005), which was produced by Soderbergh; Brad Pitt starred in Ocean's Eleven (2001) plus its two sequels, and a cameo in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) which was produced by Soderbergh.