The lead female role of Nadine Hightower was written by writer-director Robert Benton especially for actress Kim Basinger.
The picture is a 1950s period rom-com (romantic-comedy) set in Texas. The first ever film of the movie's director Robert Benton was a short called "A Texas Romance - 1909".
The movie's MacGuffin was a folio of real estate surveyor maps.
Of the two 1987 movies that actress Kim Basinger starred in, this film and Blake Edwards' Blind Date (1987), both pictures were romantic-comedy farces.