Mickey Rourke and Bill Murray have both been nominated once for a Best Actor Academy Award, and both lost to Sean Penn. Rourke was nominated for The Wrestler (2008), Penn won for Milk (2008). Murray was nominated for Lost in Translation (2003), Penn won for Mystic River (2003).
R&B/soul legend Solomon Burke had a role, but he died of a pulmonary embolism before the film's release.
This is the second film in which Bill Murray plays a mobster which is out of character for him. The other film was "Mad Dog and Glory(1993), where he played Frank Milo.
This is the sixth film in which brothers Bill Murray and Brian Doyle-Murray appear together, after "Caddyshack(1980)," "The Razor's Edge(1984)," "Scrooged(1988)," "Ghostbusters II(1989)," and "Groundhog Day(1993)."