"The film features cameos from Trisha Yearwood, Pam Tillis and Kevin Welch.River Phoenix wrote two songs including "Lone Star State of Mine"; Dermot Mulroney wrote one, and Sandra Bullock wrote lyrics for the song she performed.Bogdanovich admittted the film had some similarities to "Fame" and "Flashdance" movies that became "kind of a genre of its own... We tried to play by the rules of that.