Susan Sarandon has stated that money was a big factor regarding her decision to make this film. Not terribly enamored by her character, she agreed to do the film because she was pregnant with her first child at the time and it would allow her to take time off after giving birth.
Susan Sarandon was pregnant during production and it was agreed upon by all parties that the best way to work around it was to incorporate loose-fitting clothes into her character's wardrobe which worked out fine since she was playing a former investigative journalist turned suburban stay-at-home mom.
The film was made and first released about seven years after its source novel of the same ''Compromising Positions'' name by Susan Isaacs had been first published in 1978. Isaacs also penned the screenplay for this movie.