Director Steven Spielberg was the executive producer on the picture, but he asked to have his name removed from the credits as he had done two years earlier with another youth comedy, Fandango (1985). Both films would go on to have strong cult followings.
Was a box office bomb, but would later gain notoriety on the home video market.
Both the lead actors, Casey Siemaszko and Richard Tyson, who portray high school students here, were actually over twenty-five years of age when this film was made, and were in fact older than the film's director Phil Joanou.
According to director Phil Joanou, he was heavily influenced by director Martin Scorsese's After Hours (1985) and Raging Bull (1980) while making this film. Executive producer Steven Spielberg was expecting a movie to be handed in which was of the type and the style of The Karate Kid (1984). Spielberg apparently said to Joanou after seeing the movie: "what happened to Karate Kid? You made a Scorsese film!"
The film was executive produced by Steven Spielberg who had directed this movie's star Casey Siemaszko in the pilot episode of Amazing Stories (1985) which was entitled "The Mission" [See: The Mission (1985)]. Siemaszko had also appeared in Back to the Future (1985) which was also exec produced by Spielberg.