John Malkovich, Glenne Headly and Laurie Metcalf had been acting together since the late 1970s as members of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
Lead cast members Glenne Headly and John Malkovich were married between 1982 and 1988.
The first picture that director Susan Seidelman directed after the box-office hit movie Desperately Seeking Susan (1985).
Director Susan Seidelman worked with the film's two screenwriters Floyd Byars and Laurie Frank on several drafts of the script so as to change the focus of the film away from being a Frankenstein type story to a Pygmalion style theme.
The name of the soap opera television series that Don (Hart Bochner) was an actor on was ''New Jersey''.