In the film's promotional featurette, actress Jennifer Tilly outlines how in the movie's original script, it called for her character's breasts to pop out in one scene at the race-track during all the excitement of the cheering and rooting for the racing horses. In the end, this does not occur in the finished film, Tilly having suggested that they shouldn't, but they do wobble and jiggle and bounce and significantly project outwards during the particular shot, which is also shown in the promo short.
Star Richard Dreyfuss said of this film in the movie's promotional featurette: "What turned me onto the project was that there was a real music to this script. I don't remember a film that was as densely populated with great eccentric characters and that everyone spoke with a funny eccentric voice."
This 1989 movie was the second of three consecutive filmed adaptations of Jay Cronley novels in three consecutive years produced by Hollywood. The other adaptions were 1988's Uma Fazenda do Barulho (1988) and 1990's Não Tenho Troco (1990).
Actor David Johansen can be seen wearing a Bushwood Country Club hat from the movie Caddyshack early in the film.
The film was made and released about a decade after its source novel "Good Vibes" by Jay Cronley had been first published in 1979.