Hugo Speer, 'Ian Holm (I)' and Richard Briers were in negotiations to play Richard Boyd, but all three to drop out due to scheduling conflicts.
A tape with the final scene in the film on was mangled and the scenes had to be re shot.
The film took 25 days over a span of three months to shoot.
The story was originally set entirely in Saint Nazaire, France. In the end, the writing team decided the story would be set in Buckinghamshire, England with one of the lead characters, Celine, going on holiday to Saint Nazaire.