Middendorf's Manchac is a real seafood restaurant just outside New Orleans in Akers, La. The restaurant is located at the the base of the I-55 bridge between Lake Maurepas and Lake Pontchartrain.
Prologue: "There are only 2 ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is ... "
The Secret (2006) was released as a film in March 2006, and later the same year as a book. The book is influenced by Wallace Wattles' 1910 book "The Science of Getting Rich," which Rhonda Byrne received from her daughter during a time of personal trauma, in 2004.
Second movie to collab Josh Lucas with director Andy Tennant who directed Sweet Home Alabama (2002).
Also filmed in Abita Springs, LA on Level Street.