 The film was a smash hit at the Sundance Film Festival, but failed  to find a distributor. It was aired on the Disney Channel in 1987,  then had appeared in the Park City Film Festival in 1988, before  finally having a brief theatrical release at New Yorks Film Forum  in June 1989, but still failed to find a distributor. It was  actually shown in parts at various theaters as a serial from week to  week, and in 1991, it was distributed on video. In October 2003, it  finally had a DVD release alongside its two sequels.