This film has a huge gay following - because of the male audiences, because of Christopher Atkins' seductive striptease, and because Atkins (who forgot to wear underwear in the hotel scene with Lesley Ann Warren) wound up being naked in one scene. However, most of the critics as well as the audiences were hostile to this film.
As explained in the DVD commentary, when Christopher Atkins signed on to play Rick Monroe, there was no actual nudity written in the movie. They were shooting the scene where Lesley Ann Warren and Christopher Atkins have sex, she rubs his crotch and pulls his pants down and then the camera is supposed to move away, but accidentally that day, Chris was not wearing any underwear and his semi-erect penis popped out. It was only when the director sat down to edit that day's work that he noticed this unscripted occurrence. He thought it might add a new dimension to the scene and really show off the intimacy between the two lead characters and decided to keep it. But unfortunately Atkins was not informed about this, and he came to know only when he watched the pre-release, but nothing could be done at that time as the movie prints had already been distributed to the theaters.
This film is listed among the 100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book "The Official Razzie® Movie Guide".
"It was...very...erotic," Christopher Atkins said in a 1983 interview about his love scene with Lesley Ann Warren. For weeks, Atkins, then 22, had been working on Lesley Ann, urging her, an "older woman," to fall in love with him; the shock of it all, was that it was working too well. He wondered if what was happening in these scenes was "just acting;" he wondered if he was not falling into the love traps he had set for Lesley Ann. He thought about his then girlfriend Cynthia Gibb and he was glad she wasn't on hand to witness his 'love making' to Lesley. As he said: "I know she wouldn't have liked it. What you do in a situation like this, before the camera, is play little games with each other. Games that nobody else but the two of you will pick up."
The song "Heaven" by Bryan Adams appeared on the soundtrack of this film before the release of his album "Reckless" a year later (as the third single from the playlist - Adams insisted that the song was to be included when "Reckless" was released when his producer deemed the song as a power ballad which was not deemed as hard rock - the power ballad later paid off when Adams performed the theme song for the film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)). It was recorded on June 6 and 7, 1983 at the Power Station in New York City. In April 1985, the song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.