Nicole Harrison, who plays the protagonist's underage teenage love interest, Lisa, was 20 at the time the movie was made. She was a poet and wrote some of her dialogue. This was her only film and nude scenes.
The movie is actually a student film completed in 1982.
Co-written by star Nicole Harrison and director Steve Lustgarten. They met in school and she agreed to star in it, even though the full nudity and filming the sex scenes made her nervous.
It won the 1983 Academy Award® for Best Student Film for Steve Lustgarten, a film student at Portland State University.
American Taboo (1983) is an American independent drama film directed by Steve Lustgarten. Its plot follows a 30-something-year-old photographer who begins an illicit romance with a teenage girl.
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