Writer and director James Toback played Leo Boscovitch, a professor of literature, in this movie. He played another professor in Alice (1990). Also, Toback portrayed Professor Hassan Al-Ibrahim Ben Rabinowitz in When Will I Be Loved (2004).
Directet James Toback, the movie's director, once said of this film: "Exposed (1983) is an especially significant title for a story that moves through different circuits of revelation. Elizabeth [Nastassja Kinski] learns about herself, and about the breadth of her capacities, which turn out to be wildly beyond her initial awareness, through a series of increasingly shocking events. But it is also a romance about the fatal attraction a charming, talented, and obsessed musician has for the girl".