This film and The Hollywood Knights (1980) released the same year were the first cinema movies of actress Michelle Pfeiffer.
This film and Without Warning (1980) released the same year were the first cinema movies of actor David Caruso. Caruso was uncredited as a young neighborhood boy.
According to Vincent Canby in his review for The New York Times, the movie "was conceived by Mr. [Steven] Paul when he was 18 years old and finished when he was 21, financed, apparently, by . . . family and friends."