Characters, plot developments and several stylistic elements honor Rear Window, Vertigo, Spellbound, Rebecca and Psycho.
Pfeiffer's blonde lead is suggestive of past Hitchcock blondes Grace Kelly, Kim Novak and Tippi Hedren, while Ford's two-faced character evokes Joseph Cotten in Shadow of a Doubt and Claude Rains in Notorious. Characters, plot developments and several stylistic elements honor Rear Window, Vertigo, Spellbound, Rebecca and Psycho.