One of five feature films made in South Australia which were written and/or directed by Australian auteur Paul Cox. The pictures are: 'Innocence' (2000), 'Human Touch' (2004), 'Lust and Revenge' (1996), the 'Winners' series episode tele-movie short feature 'The Paper Boy' (1985), and the documentary feature 'The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky' (2001). He also later directed the feature documentary 'Paul Cox directs the Diary of Nijinsky' (2014) which was about the making of the latter.
The film was voted as one of the top audience films in at least three Australian film festivals held in the cities of Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.
The film won the People's Choice Award Third Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival in the year 2000.
Actor Terry Norris and actress Julia Blake in real life are married. The pair at the time that the film was made and first released had been married for about thirty-eight years. Norris had previously played both Blake's on-screen father and on-screen husband.
Paul Cox and the film were the winner of the People's Choice Award at the Montréal World Film Festival in the year 2000. Moreover, at the same fest, they won the prestigious Grand Prix des Amériques (Grand Prix of the Americas), an award for Best Film, in a tie with 'The Taste of Others' (2000).