As he tries to lose his virginity to local high school girls, a classmate's mother (Joan Collins) decides to make a man of him.

The day before the film's premiere, it was reported that Joan Collins, Betty Thomas, Carrie Snodgress and Lee Purcell had all taken legal action to get their names removed from the credits.

Collins claimed that the film's advertising was misleading because she had only performed in a minor supporting role shot two years earlier, but a sex scene had been added afterward using a body double to cash in on her new celebrity status from the hit TV show Dynasty.

[5] Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film zero stars out of four, declaring: "A miserable excuse for a movie.

"[6] Dale Pollock wrote in the Los Angeles Times that the film was marred by "poor photography, sloppy editing and atrocious acting," and that the body double in the sex scene "doesn't even resemble Collins.