This movie, a remake, was released six years after François Truffaut's source French movie The Man Who Loved Women (1977).
The only one of three movies that Burt Reynolds was to make with writer, producer, and director Blake Edwards that was completed without Edwards withdrawing. Edwards was going to direct Reynolds in Rough Cut (1980), but left. Edwards withdrew also from City Heat (1984) after various creative differences.
First of two movies that Kim Basinger made with writer, producer, and director Blake Edwards. The second being Blind Date (1987).
Even though they only completed one movie together, Burt Reynolds has said that next to Hal Needham, Blake Edwards was his favorite director with whom to work.
Website "DVD Verdict" states that according to Richard Schickel's book on Clint Eastwood, "(Burt) Reynolds and (Dame Julie) Andrews had not gotten along very well during the production of The Man Who Loved Women (1983) and of course, Reynolds had major reservations about a reprise of previous problems (on City Heat (1984), where Edwards was the original director before leaving)".