Fast Facts About The Film

• The final sound mix for the film was digitally re-mastered at SKYWALKER SOUND, a division of Lucas Digital, Ltd. in Marin County, California.

• Screenwriter Broderick Miller of Los Angeles also wrote the script for HBO’s highest-rated original movie, DEADLOCK.

• GRANDFATHER’S BIRTHDAY marks the first time that the father-son duo of Robert and John Prosky have acted together in the same scene in a motion picture.

• The original score for the film was created by Paul Hartwig, once a member of the Minnesota-based rock band "Limited Warranty."

• The original story, "It Was Grandfather’s Birthday," first appeared in the late Ann Landers syndicated newspaper column in 1985. Since then, it has become one of the column’s most requested reruns.

• GRANDFATHER’S BIRTHDAY is the first film directed by Gayle Knutson, a Minnesota native.

• The entire film was shot on location in Marine on St. Croix and Stillwater, Minnesota in June, 1999.