Feature film debut of Adam Baldwin, Joan Cusack, Jennifer Beals (uncredited), Dean Devlin and Paul Quandt.
Adam Baldwin - who plays the reluctant hero, Ricky Linderman - has a brief cameo in another movie, Meu Nome é Taylor, Drillbit Taylor (2008), which is a comedic version of the whole bodyguard genre.
He is seen wearing the exact same outfit from the original classic movie, and scolds the boys who are interviewing him, with a completely ironic line, "Kids hiring a bodyguard, to take care of a bully? Stupidest thing I ever heard!"
Filmed in part at Lake View High School in Chicago, Illinois.
Second movie where Chris Makepeace played a bullied kid who finds solace with a cool older guy. The first was the previous year in Meatballs with Bill Murray.
Ricky's motorbike is a Honda CB 350 K4.