When Joey Lawrence came in to read for the lead role in the film, his parents suggested to writer/director Paul Golding that he should consider casting Lawrence's younger brother Matthew Lawrence in the smaller part of neighbor Stevie. Matthew was cast as Stevie after he nailed Stevie's curbside speech at his audition.
The film was completed one day early on principal shooting and $1,000,000.00 under its budget of $6,000,000.00.
The original rough cut of this film was two hours long. Writer/director Paul Golding thought it dragged on for too long and cut multiple scenes from it to tighten up the run time to a much shorter one hour and 35 minutes. Deleted scenes included David in Colorado with his mother before heading to Los Angeles and David and Ellen in a conversation near some electronic transmission lines; Ellen relates a story from her childhood about how the tract housing cropped up in her neighborhood once these big power lines were put in.
Earlier titles for this film were "House," "Tract" and "Currents."