(Derek & Kira get pulled over by a sherriff's car)Kira: They might let you off with a warning once they know who my dad is.
Kira: In this case it might not help. (sees her father walking up to the truck)
Russell tells his son Jesse that he came over from Havana by himself on a boat in 1980, when he was 10 years old. His parents were supposed to join him on the next boat, but they never did.
Dave refers to the 1972 movie Deliverance in two separate scenes. In the swamp near the site where Kira's mother died in 1996 (her father Sheriff Underlay was the only survivor on the plane), Dave begins mimicking the Duelling Banjos song from Deliverance.
Later at the campsite, Dave tells Jesse and Russell "This is just like Deliverance."
In the movie Deliverance, four urban men go on a rafting trip down a backwoods river where they encounter hostile country folk. The movie received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture and John Boorman was nominated for Best Director.