[3] The cast also includes Albert Schultz, Tom McCamus, Brooke Johnson, Jayne Eastwood, David Fox, Joseph Ziegler, Christopher Bondy, Anna Henry, Emma Speakman and Dawn Greenhalgh in supporting roles.
[5] By early 1993, Berman was still struggling with the script and despairing of whether she would be able to get the film into production at all, but stated that her spirits were buoyed when she was invited to a special gathering of every living woman who had ever won an Academy Award, during which she had encouraging conversations with actresses Geena Davis and Ginger Rogers.
[4] Production locations included the real-life home of producer Joan Cohl, with band performance scenes shot in various Queen Street West nightclubs.
Other major flaws are her impulse to spell everything out in capital letters and the hand-held cinema verite style that flattens everything rather than lending it dramatic punch.
"[2] For the Toronto Star, Craig MacInnis wrote that "Berman understands the dynamics of popular music better than most, and she has a fine eye for the rough surface textures of life in the clubs - the barbed banter, the studied ennui, the sex.