Star Jamie Lee Curtis agreed to do the film for only US $25,000, despite it requiring several nude scenes, as it gave her a chance to break away from the horror movies which she had been mostly making at that stage of her career.
With this movie, producer and New World Pictures studio head Roger Corman wanted to shape a new direction for the company toward more small, personal" films, according to an article published in the 27th January 1984 edition of 'The New York Times' newspaper.
Second nude scene in a feature film of actress Jamie Lee Curtis. Her first was in 'Trading Places' (1983) which was released the same year just before this film. Except for a quick flash of nipple in the 'Tailor of Panama' (2001), she has never appeared naked on screen since [to date, November 2021].
Director and writer Amy Holden Jones had just made her feature film debut as director of the movie 'Slumber Party Massacre' (1982) and wanted to follow it up with something non-horror. She got the inspiration for this film after having found some old love letters that she and her husband had written to each other.
In the scene where Jamie Lee visits her mother in the hospital, you can see the overhead microphone over the mother.