It is based on Frank Moorhouse's so-named collection of four short stories published in 1980.
[7] Janet Maslin of The New York Times in 1989 thought that the film was divided "into two halves, the first engrossing and the second ridiculous...
The action becomes farfetched, the actors hopelessly unconvincing, and everyone ages so badly—thanks to too much eyebrow pencil and talcum powder—that the film winds up looking like a high-school play".
[1] RS reviewing for Time Out stated that "All the gay characters are 'elderly pervert' stereotypes, cruel, calculating and vampirish.
Yet, for a film that takes so rigidly homophobic a stance, an awful lot of time is spent dwelling on youthful tanned muscles and taut buttocks".