In one scene, a character is seen reading the book "In Praise of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays" (1976) by Anaïs Nin. She was a great admirer of the work of writer-director Henry Jaglom and dedicated part of this book to praising his film A Safe Place (1971).
An unrelated book with the same title called ''Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? - American Women and the Kitchen in the Twentieth Century'' by Mary Drake McFeely was published in the year 2001.
Henry Jaglom financed the movie's US $1 million budget by soliciting money from five film distributors according to an article published in the 13th June 1983 issue of show-business trade-paper 'Daily Variety'.
One of about ten theatrical feature film collaborations of actor Michael Emil and director Henry Jaglom.
Orson Welles: Uncredited (in the cast list), as a magician. Welles is not credited in the cast list for the role but does receive billing which states ''special thanks to Orson Welles, the magician''.