Debut theatrical feature film of cast members Alex English and Joshua Zuehlke. Alex English, the all-star forward for the Denver Nuggets and the National Basketball Association's leading scorer of the 1980's, made his acting debut as Amazing Grace Smith, a character much like himself-sensitive, introspective, highly principled - who decides his moral convictions are stronger than his desire to be a great player. Joshua Zuehlke, a seventh grade star Little League pitcher from Minnesota, made his acting debut as Chuck Murdock, a young man who abruptly leaves childhood behind when he courageously makes a very adult decision.
Jamie Lee Curtis recounted that she "turned down a lot of work around this film, hoping it was going to get made." Curtis was one of Hollywood's hottest young actresses at the time.
David Field, a former production executive turned independent producer, wrote and produced this picture. Field could not get anyone to write a screenplay from his outline so he wrote a 57-page story treatment for a script within a week. The first draft of the script had actually been written in 1983 with Field having conceived the story when he was a production executive at United Artists during the early 1980s. While listening to a story pitch back then, the idea for the film's story came to him, and within an hour, Field had written an 11 page outline.