Trivia

The film was made and released about 24 years after its source novel of the same name by Edna O'Brien was first published in 1960.

Sam Neill's character is never called by any real personal name and is only ever known as "Mr. Gentleman".

The movie's source novel "The Country Girls" (1960) by Edna O'Brien was banned by Ireland's classification authority the Irish Censorship Board with O'Brien's parish priest publicly burning copies of the book. O'Brien because of the public denouncement left Ireland.

Actresses Jill Doyle and Maeve Germaine received 'introducing' credits.

"The Country Girls" (1960) was the first novel of authoress Edna O'Brien.