According to the September-October 1982 edition of "Coming Attractions" (USA) magazine, the movie paid homage "to at least three worthy precursors". These were (1) William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (2) Arthur Schnitzler's "La Ronde" and (3) Ingmar Bergman's "Smiles of a Summer Night", "in a post-Freudian look at sex and shenanigans in a pre-Freudian world". Moreover, according to Paul Brenner at 'Rovi', the film was based upon "Ingmar Bergmans Sorrisi di una notte d'estate (1955) and Jean Renoir's "Rules of the Game" [La regola del gioco (1939)], whilst Roger Ebert of 'The Chicago Sun-Times' said that the movie "echoes of [William] Shakespeare and of [Ingmar] Bergman's Sorrisi di una notte d'estate (1955), there are suggestions of John Cheever's 'Wapshots', [E.L.] Doctorow's Ragtime (1981), and Jean Renoir's films".

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