Production
The film was written by Sweeney, Jim Emerson, Sweeney's friend from their days with The Groundlings, and Sweeney's former husband Stephen Hibbert. While at the Groundlings it had been Emerson who had suggested Pat, at the time a "character based on annoying co-workers who don't leave you alone", become androgynous.
Three months before the film's release, Sweeney commented on her initial reluctance to do a film based on Pat:
- I resisted it completely. I just didn't know how we could make it last for two hours. But 20th Century Fox was really keen; our producer was really keen. So we thought, O.K., we'll write the script. And after three months, we fell madly in love with the script. Unfortunately, Fox did not.
Touchstone Pictures decided to produce the film after Fox bowed out.
Quentin Tarantino admitted being an uncredited writer of the script.
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