The producers had formerly been students at Ohio State University. In an effort to save funds and get the movie made, they talked the professor into letting his current students crew the film as part of a class project, which also provided them with access to locations on the campus. Post-production was done elsewhere to ensure the school couldn't attempt to claim ownership of the film.
VHS releases included a lengthy dream sequence featuring a girl in a sprawling inn who was taunting Eric. This scene was actually the short film Come to Me Softly (1988), which the distributors inserted into the movie to pad the running time. It was removed when the film was issued on DVD.
When Jay Woelfel and Dyrk Ashton delivered the first cut to the distributor, they were told it had two problems: it was too short and there was no nudity. So Woelfel hired a couple of models through an ad in the paper and shot some random nude scenes to insert throughout. Then they inserted footage from a short they had made previously on 35mm and added a very drawn-out four-minute credit sequence to achieve a minimum 86 minutes runtime.
Ashton and Woelfel were surprised when potential distributors for the film started calling shortly after production started. 'Apparently these guys watch Variety's new film starts column and jump at everyone that doesn't list a distributor,' said Ashton in a March 1990 Cinefantastique feature. The pair settled on Panorama Entertainment.
Soon after filming was completed, Rick Kesler shaved his head to star as Daddy Warbucks in a stage production of Annie. Director Jay Woelfel asked him to save his hair in case there was a problem, which there was. Sunlight had blown out some of the footage, including his close-up when he's following Julie's mother into her house, so they glued some hair back onto his head and reshot the scene. If he had moved his head too far one way or the other, the camera would have seen that the rest of his head was bald.
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