The movie was described as "Romancing the Ghostbusters in the Temple of Doom."
Acting and performing music come from the same place, but each requires a slightly different technique," said Cyndi Lauper "To play Sylvia, I had to learn to tone everything down. I'm used to things being exaggerated and larger than life-you know, the eyes going back and forth-because those things work in a big concert hall. To perform for a movie camera, you have to be capable of a certain stillness. That's something I've learned here that I enjoy very much."
Dan Aykroyd was originally cast as Nick Deezy. He met with Cyndi Lauper and decided he did not want to work with her. He dropped out after Columbia Pictures head David Puttnam insisted on casting her as the co-star.
Cyndi Lauper's first movie role.