Eric Brown replaced another actor who was originally cast as Phillip "Philly" Fillmore but was fired after eighteen days of shooting.
First of two consecutive cinema movies where actor Eric Brown has intimate liaisons with an older woman. The second picture was They're Playing with Fire (1984) around three years later in 1984. In both films Brown is teamed with a known older sex symbol, Sylvia Kristel here and Sybil Danning in They're Playing with Fire (1984).
While most of the movie was filmed in the Phoenix, Arizona area, the production had to go into New Mexico to film the love scenes as the age of consent in Arizona is 18 and in New Mexico it is 16. This is dubious, as age of consent laws apply to actual sexual activity, which does not occur in this film, and inconsistent with the item that states Eric Brown was 15 at the time of filming.
The picture is part of a mini early-to-mid 1980s cycle of Hollywood movies where a young man has an affair with a more mature woman. This started after the box-office success of the late 1970s Canadian film In Praise of Older Women (1978). The others were Class (1983), My Tutor (1983), In the Mood (1987), and They're Playing with Fire (1984).