Trivia

In one scene, a car rolls down a cliff and bursts into flames. The car, a 1979 Datsun B210, belonged to the film's director Jahangir Salehi's daughter Samira. She had paid for the car herself, but after she dated a man whom Jahangir forbade her to see, he took away the car and told her she'd never see it again. After seeing the completed film at a screening in 2005, Samira finally learned the fate of her car.

It was long rumored that the movie's one-week run at the four Los Angeles area Laemmle's theaters grossed only $70, meaning only seven or eight tickets were sold. However, the documentary That's So John Rad (2016) was given access to the Laemmle's records and discovered it actually pulled in exactly $2,238. When later released at Laemmle's Sunset 5 in Hollywood, CA as a midnight movie, the theater was sold out.

Jahangir Salehi died in 2007 and never lived to see the movie receive a full national distribution from Drafthouse Films in 2015. However, his daughter, when later interviewed, said she was not sure he would have understood the film's place as a "so bad it's good" movie. At a midnight screening he was able to attend before his death, he referred to everyone laughing in the theater as "just a bunch of drunk people."

Started production in the 1970s/'80s, project completed in the mid-'90s and released in 2005.

The rumored $70 box-office draw this film earned, later discovered to actually be just over $2,000, came when Jahangir Salehi paid his own money to rent four LA-area cinemas to play the film for a week. This is known as a "four-wall distribution" where the theater makes their money from the rental charge and would have given all box office sales back to the director. This cost him somewhere in the high end of tens of thousands of dollars which means, whether the total box office was $70 or $2000, the director failed to make even a 1% return on his investment in the four-wall deal.