The ending was re-shot a few weeks before the film opened because the audience reactions at the test screening had been overwhelmingly negative.
Debut theatrical feature film of actress Miriam Flynn who played Feebleman's Secretary.
Debut theatrical feature film as the sole movie director of screenwriter Buck Henry who had previously been the co-director with Warren Beatty on 'Heaven Can Wait' (1978).
Actor John Hillerman was considered for a role in the movie and reportedly had "wanted the part very badly" and had he got it he would have not appeared as Higgins in the television series Magnum, P.I. (1980).