Coda

This film was originally intended for theatrical release but was released straight to video and television instead.

One of a number of films directed by director Craig Lahiff with one word titles. The titles include: Coda (1987), Swerve (2011), Fever (1988), Ebbtide (1994), Strangers (1991), and Labyrinth (1979).

First major feature film directed by director Craig Lahiff. Previously, Lahiff had directed the short feature film 'The Coming' (1981). Both productions were produced by Terry Jennings.

In a 4th August 1997 interview with Australian film critic and historian Peter Malone, the film's director Craig Lahiff said of this movie: ''It's very much a tele-film. I suppose it's very Hitchcocky and de Palma inspired. I co-wrote it with Terry Jennings who produced it. It took a while to work out the mechanisms of how to finance it, but that was the first full-length film.''

''The film sold very well on video'' according to the book 'The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry' (1990) by David Stratton. According to the 'Oz Movies' website, ''the film was made as a tele-movie and never made it on to the big screen. The film did however do good business on the tape circuit, and sold in the US for the negative cost of the production. It also sold into a number of European territories for the tape market, while Palace [Films] picked it up for domestic tape release.''