When the film was shown on the SBS Television Network in Australia it was only then when the film crew were able to be paid their deferments.
The picture in 1988 was nominated for one AFI (Australian Film Institute) Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role for Sean Scully but lost out to John Waters for Boulevard of Broken Dreams (1988). Lead actress Gosia Dobrowolska was not nominated that year for the AFI (Australian Film Institute) Award for Best Actress in a Lead Role.
The amount of time that the marriage between David Simmons (Sean Scully) and Renate Simmons (Gosia Dobrowolska) had gone for was nine years.
The movie's writer-director John Dingwall mortgaged his house in order to raise the money to finance this feature film.