Cinematographer John Schwartzman also shot Video Valentino (1986), the short film this movie is based on, for director Richard Martini. Martini promised Schwartzman that if the short was ever made into a feature, he would hire him to shoot it. When that time came, Schwartzman was turned down by the movie's completion bond company, which wouldn't approve both a first-time director and a first-time cinematographer. Schwartzman asked Peter Lyons Collister, who had prior feature experience and was "bondable", to co-shoot the movie with him: "He did the most altruistic thing anyone has done for me and said yes. The result was an unmemorable film, but it was the start of a career for a young cinematographer."
David Leisure and Kristy McNichol appear in this movie and also starred in the TV series Empty Nest together.