Production
The film was shot on location on the Forth and Clyde and Union Canals and in Clydebank, Dumbarton, Renton in West Dunbartonshire, Grangemouth, and Perth and Kinross.
The film was scored by David Byrne and the soundtrack was released under the title Lead Us Not into Temptation.
The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. It was also shown at the Moscow Film Festival, the Edinburgh Film Festival, the Telluride Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the Athens Film Festival before going into theatrical release in the UK on 26 September 2003. It earned $1,135,673 in the United Kingdom and $2,561,820 worldwide.
When the film was released in the United States, the Motion Picture Association of America rated it NC-17 for "some explicit sexual content," notably a 14-second scene depicting oral sex.
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