The picture was funded under the famed and notorious 10BA Australian film funding and financing scheme.
Lead actor John Waters plays a character called Martin Brown in this picture. In the feature film Grievous Bodily Harm (1988), he played a character called Morris Martin, whilst in seven episodes of the television series Young Lions (2002), he portrayed a character named Senior Detective Bill Martin.
In an interview with Doug Aiton of 'The Sunday Age' Australian newspaper published out of the state of Victoria on 6th May 1995, when asked about the worst movie he had ever made, star John Waters said: ''Ooh, I'd say the film that failed to achieve its brief more than any other was one in the mid-'80s called 'Going Sane'. It was a mid- life crisis about a man who works for a mining corporation and goes a bit crazy and leaves his wife and makes love with his secretary. The wife was played by Judy Morris. Judy and I also played husband-and-wife in the last episode of 'Homicide', which was cancelled."
Stars John Waters and Judy Morris have also worked together numerous times on Australian television. Both also starred in the made-for-television telemovie Cass (1978). However, 'Going Sane' is their only ever cinema picture the pair have collaborated on.
This picture is one of Australian actor John Waters' ''several mid-life crisis roles" according to film critic David Stratton in his book 'The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry' (1990).