After this film flopped, Al Pacino reportedly decided to focus on live theater. His next film was Melodía de seducción (1989), 4 years later.
Upon its release, this movie was the biggest box-office disaster in British movie history. It scared off city financing for British movies for years, almost single-handedly causing a decade-long financial crisis in the industry.
Scenes were filmed in Norway at the behest of a group of Norwegian dentists who invested in this movie.