Ramon Bieri plays Emilio Estevez's father. Almost a decade earlier, Bieri had played Martin Sheen's workmate in Badlands. As most know, Sheen is Emilio's father in real life.
Susan Jacoby is the sister of Billy Jacoby, who would play Emilio Estevez's friend in Nightmares.
The year before, Ellen Geer played the mother of another teenage rebel (Michael Kramer) in Over The Edge, which also starred Matt Dillon, who'd co-star with Emilio Estevez in The Outsiders and Tex.