Renée Humphrey's film debut. Based on her birthdate, she may have been 17 during filming.
Film debut of Leslie Harter (the future Mrs. Robert Zemeckis), though she did have a small role as a model in Over Exposed (1984) almost ten years before.
Originally titled Edge of Innocence, but Martin Scorsese's Age of Innocence was being released at the same time so the makers of the film changed the title to Jailbait, with the foreign title being named Streetwise.