The film was a remake of a Um Yankee em Oxford (1938) and was made and released about forty-six years after that original film.
Debut feature film as a producer for Cassian Elwes who is the brother of Cary Elwes who appeared in the movie.
The character of Lady Victoria Wingate (Amanda Pays) was loosely based on the real-life Princess Stéphanie of Monaco.
First of two cinema movies that leads, actor Rob Lowe and actress Ally Sheedy, both appeared in, the second being the following 1985 year's O Primeiro Ano do Resto de Nossas Vidas (1985).