The portion of this film's budget provided by United Artists was cut to US $2.5 million so that United Artists could properly finance the increasingly expensive financial demands of Michael Cimino's La Porte du paradis (1980).
Part of this was filmed at New York City's Calhoun School. They were extremely cooperative with the shooting. The Calhoun School is a college preparatory institution located in the heart of Manhattan's West Side.
The name of the moving company on the truck that Paul Philips (John Lithgow) uses to move out his stuff is ''Mother Truckers Corp.''.
Debut and final theatrical feature film of actor Jeremy Levy. The picture was his first, final and only ever cinema movie. He became an academic and tenured as a physics professor at the University of Pittsburgh.