Director Steven Spielberg was the executive producer on the picture, but he asked to have his name removed from the credits as he had done two years earlier with another youth comedy, Une bringue d'enfer ! (1985). Both films would go on to have strong cult followings.
Was a box office bomb, but would later gain notoriety on the home video market.
Both the lead actors, Casey Siemaszko and Richard Tyson, who portray high school students here, were actually over twenty-five years of age when this film was made, and were in fact older than the film's director Phil Joanou.
According to director Phil Joanou, he was heavily influenced by director Martin Scorsese's After Hours: Quelle nuit de galère (1985) and Raging Bull (1980) while making this film. Executive producer Steven Spielberg was expecting a movie to be handed in which was of the type and the style of Karate Kid (1984). Spielberg apparently said to Joanou after seeing the movie: "what happened to Karate Kid? You made a Scorsese film!"
The film was executive produced by Steven Spielberg who had directed this movie's star Casey Siemaszko in the pilot episode of Histoires fantastiques (1985) which was entitled "The Mission" [See: The Mission (1985)]. Siemaszko had also appeared in Retour vers le futur (1985) which was also exec produced by Spielberg.