[3] It was the first film she made for Dimension Pictures, a company in which she was a minor shareholder with her husband Charles Swartz along with Larry Woolner.

Chris (Aimée Eccles) who works at a car rental store alongside her friend Judy, squabbles with boyfriend Sandor (Solomon Sturges), who writes bumper sticker slogans.

Chris meets parole officer Dennis (Jeff Pomerantz) when both try to get into the same car and she and Sandor give him a lift.

In the interest of fairness, Dennis invites Chris and Sandor to dinner with his ex-girlfriend Jan (Victoria Vetri), an ex-stewardess.

At a picnic on the beach, Jan meets lifeguard Phil Kirby (Zack Taylor), who later sleeps with Chris and moves in with the other five.

According to Rothman, Larry Woolner, who ran Dimension, "wanted me to make a sexy film, and I tried to think of how I could do that and anchor it in something that said something about sexual mores."

She was reading a book Future Shock which included discussion of group marriage and thought that "might be a wonderful framework in which to create a sex comedy that said something about the temperaments of the people involved, their goals, the social pitfalls of trying to do something like this in a society where it’s neither legal nor admired particularly.”[4] Rothman was determined to handle the topic "in a way that was not sordid and sleazy" but rather "humorous and pithy and imaginative... my intention at least was to make something that was a surprise.

I had to carefully choose where to put thosescenes, so that they did advance the story and tell you something about the character, but at the same time allowed me to not use synchronized sound.

Then odd, unnecessary subplots intrude, like one guy’s melodramatic job as a probation officer.

And though the filmmakers obviously thought they were on the cutting edge, with all four leads in bed together, smoking grass, they never shed the old morality horseshit.

Under its mod surface, it’s simple, romantic pabulum, swaddled in the latest trendiness, Ignoring all the comic possibilities in favor of generic, self-serious fodder.

It is certainly not typical of movie romances to have so many characters liking each other for an entire film when things are going on that would make everyday people despise one another.