Eric Brown replaced another actor who was originally cast as Phillip "Philly" Fillmore but was fired after eighteen days of shooting.
First of two consecutive cinema movies where actor Eric Brown has intimate liaisons with an older woman. The second picture was They're Playing with Fire (1984) around three years later in 1984. In both films Brown is teamed with a known older sex symbol, Sylvia Kristel here and Sybil Danning in They're Playing with Fire (1984).
While most of the movie was filmed in the Phoenix, Arizona area, the production moved to New Mexico to film two sensitive scenes with Brown and Kristel. While it is often cited that this was due to differing age of consent laws, in actuality it was because the production was advised that filming scenes where 1) Kristel was nude with Brown in the room or 2) sexual activity was simulated, i.e. a sex scene, would come up against a very broad Arizona Sexual Exploitation of Children statute. A warehouse in north Albuquerque was rented, and two scenes were shot there.
The picture is part of a mini early-to-mid 1980s cycle of Hollywood movies where a young man has an affair with a more mature woman. This started after the box-office success of the late 1970s Canadian film In Praise of Older Women (1978). The others were Class (1983), My Tutor (1983), In the Mood (1987), and They're Playing with Fire (1984).