The picture was controversial for billing the actual street address of a bordello in the closing credits where they stated "massage parlour sequences filmed at the Daily Planet, 9 Horne Street Elsternwick, Victoria". The name of the establishment in the movie is re-titled as "The Golden Palm".
Ambulance scenes in this movie were performed by actual ambulance officers who were not billed not in the picture's credits.
Director "Brian Trenchard-Smith apparently wanted a change from his usual action subjects' according to David Stratton in his book "The Avocado Plantation : Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry" (1990).
One of three collaborations of producer Tom Broadbridge and director Brian Trenchard-Smith. The films are (in order) The Quest (1986), Jenny Kissed Me (1985), and Out of the Body (1989), and were each made and released around three years apart. Trenchard-Smith directed all three whilst Broadbridge was the producer on the first, one of two on the second, and an executive producer on the third.
The film's director Brian Trenchard-Smith once famously described the movie as a "tearjerker for men".