Dame Helen Mirren won the Award for Best Actress at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival for her performance as Marcella in this movie.
Third movie that employed Mark Knopfler as composer after Comfort and Joy (1984) and Local Hero (1983).
Debut full-length feature film of Director Pat O'Connor, who had previously directed a short feature, though that being the one hour and five minute, The Ballroom of Romance (1982).
The major locale setting of this picture is Antrim County in Northern Ireland.