Georgia references her sister Lizzie's past boyfriends "Tristan, Jess, and Dean", all names of Rory Gilmore's past boyfriends and pivotal characters on Gilmore Girls (2000).
There are many similarities between this movie and Notting Hill (1999):
- the primary locale of Notting Hill.
- a romance between a Brit and an American.
- a romance between a famous person and a non-famous person, the latter unsure if she, in this case, can handle a life in the public eye.
- the famous person's photograph seen on the side of a London double-decker bus, and stories of the person in the British tabloids.
- an early encounter of the leads bumping into each other leading to a spilled drink, and the local inviting the foreigner to clean up in, in this case, his nearby flat.
- a reference to "Horse & Hound" magazine.