Debut feature film as a producer for Cassian Elwes who is the brother of Cary Elwes who appeared in the movie.
The film was a remake of a A Yank at Oxford (1938) and was made and released about forty-six years after that original film.
The character of Lady Victoria Wingate (Amanda Pays) was loosely based on the real-life Princess Stéphanie of Monaco.
First of two cinema movies that leads, actor Rob Lowe and actress Ally Sheedy, both appeared in, the second being the following 1985 year's St. Elmo's Fire (1985).