One of a cycle of thrillers made during the early 1990s which were set around husband and wife characters. The films include Malícia (1993), O Engano (1991), Busca Mortal (1991), Pensamentos Mortais (1991), Obsessão Fatal (1992), Acima de Qualquer Suspeita (1990), Tão Culpado Como o Pecado (1993), Dormindo com o Inimigo (1991), and Um Beijo Antes de Morrer (1991).
The film cast includes three Oscar winners: Kevin Kline, Kevin Spacey, and Forest Whitaker; and one Oscar nominee: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.
This was the second film on which Kevin Kline and director Alan J. Pakula worked together. The first was A Escolha de Sofia (1982).
The name of the working title for the earlier film Amantes em Família (1980) was "Consenting Adults". In Sedução na Índia (1970), the name of the best-seller trash-romantic page-turner pulp-fiction novel that Jackie Collins / Jacqueline Susann - like English authoress Lucia Lane (Jennifer Kendal) had written was "Consenting Adults", a title itself which became the name of at least four later unrelated filmed productions (Consenting Adults (1982), this film, Proibido para Menores (2000), and Consenting Adults (2007)).