In an interview with CrankyCritic.com during the late 1990s, John Travolta said of this film: ""I think I learned 20 years ago when I did Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Grease (1978) and was touted the biggest star in the world; then I did a movie called Moment by Moment (1978) and you'd have thought I'd have sunk the Titanic. I was so mistreated as a result of that film that I can never again take any of it seriously. So I guess I learned that you've got to be tough and expect the worst, but nothing could be worse than that".
John Travolta has said that the reason he made this movie was that he wanted to work with actress-comedian Lily Tomlin.
The storyline is about a relationship between an older woman (Lily Tomlin) and a younger man (John Travolta). Vince Leo at 'Qwipster's Movie Reviews' points out that "[John] Travolta was just coming out of a tragic relationship with an older woman himself with actress Diana Hyland, who actually played his mother in the infamous television film, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976)" about two years earlier in 1976. Morevoer, "Lily [Tomlin] also bears a striking resemblance to John's real-life actress sister, Ellen, and they are both around the same age to boot".
Actress Lily Tomlin and writer-director Jane Wagner are married in real life. They were married in 2013.
Despite the film's bad reputation, not performing well commercially in theaters upon release, the movie was still able to rake up a take of almost US $11 million at the box office in the USA.