Production
The film's working title was Dead Flowers (as seen on the clapperboard in the "making-of" film in the DVD's extras). The film is dedicated to French director Jean Eustache. In an interview, Jarmusch said he felt close to Eustache for his commitment to making films in a unique and independent fashion.
It was filmed in Rockland County and Westchester County, New York, as well as in New York City and the townships of Mahwah and Wayne, New Jersey. In agreeing to do this film, Bill Murray set the conditions that it would only take six weeks and that he was never more than 60 miles from his home in Rockland County, New York.
Director Jim Jarmusch generated the wording in the pink letter by asking each of the four female leads to write a version of the letter from the point of view of their respective characters. He used an amalgamation of those four letters in the finished film, "using pieces of their own language".
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