 Made by Ken Tipton (qv) as a way of "proving" himself as a  director in order to secure funding for his pet project, "Heart of  the Beholder", a movie about his experiences as the owner of a chain  of video stores which were forced out of business by religious  protestors in St. Louis, Missouri, when the stores were the only  ones in the city stocking  _Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988)_ (qv)