Reviewed in 'Variety' dated 6 July 1983.
The film was based on a storyline, characters and a screenplay by married couple Bob Ellis and Anne Brooksbank.
The film managed to garner one AFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards nomination in 1983 in the category of Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Martin Vaughan but lost out to John Hargreaves for Careful, He Might Hear You (1983).
The period of principal photography on this picture was a production shoot in 1983 that ran for about seven weeks between the months of January and February that year.