Leopold is an English and broken baron living in New York in the end of the Nineteenth Century. He needs to get married with a rich fiancée to recover his family position from ruin. Kate is a successful businesswoman living also in New York, but in 2001. Due to a time incident, they meet each other in the present days and they fall in love to each other.

Hugh Jackman took etiquette lessons from 19-century etiquette expert Jane Gibson (who trained actors for such projects as Sense and Sensibility (1995)). He also studied ballroom dancing and trained to ride a horse for the film.

Leopold:
Are you suggesting madam that there exists a law compelling a gentleman to lay hold of canine bowel movements?


Police Officer:
I'm suggesting that you pick the poop up.

Revealing mistakes: In the final act, Darci walks up to an elevator, goes to push the button and misses it by about six inches. The elevator arrives anyway.

Performed by University of Michigan Band
Composed by John Philip Sousa
Courtesy of Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company