In a 2013 interview, when Virginia Madsen was asked about this role, she refused to talk about it. All she said was "Those guys were assholes. They were really shitty to me. It was bad. Bad memories." Rob Lowe said her comment was justifiable, pointing out "her big part in that movie required her shirt to get ripped off, and looking back, it couldn't be a more egregious, vintage, lowbrow, 1980s Porky's-esque, shoehorned-in moment... I can imagine it was not much fun to do that big sequence with a bunch of laughing, ogling frat-boy actors. I mean, can you imagine putting up with me, [John] Cusack, Alan Ruck, and Andrew McCarthy at 18?"
After the film's release, actress Jacqueline Bisset publicly expressed her dissatisfaction with its editing as being deleterious to her character's "subtext."
The movie featured three members of the Cusack family in acting roles: father Dick Cusack, daughter Joan Cusack and son John Cusack.
The picture is part of a mini early-to-mid 1980s cycle of Hollywood movies where a young man has an affair with a more mature woman. This has started after the box-office success of the late 1970s Canadian film Les femmes de 30 ans (1978). The films include: Class (1983), L'été du bac (1983), Leçons très particulières (1981), In the Mood (1987), Jeu mortel (1984) and Risky Business.