writer and director Susan  Seidelman had raised $20,000 for a feature length film and was quite  competently managing the finances of the project. However, one  night, lead actress Susan Berman was doing an improvisation with one  of her fellow actors in the film which involved her character being  tossed and trapped on a fire escape, and responding quite  frantically to the situation. In the midst of acting and struggling  with the other actor in the scene to let her back inside, Berman  fell off the fire escape and broke her leg. Production shut down for  six months and the crew picked up shooting again in early 1981.