A film was directed by music business baron Lou Adler for Paramount Pictures in 1981, and written by Nancy Dowd who won the Right Screenplay Oscar for Slap Shot. Dowd took a nom de guerre Rob Morton fallowing existence unsastisfied by using a production run & a final cut of the film. A picture was by Joe Roth who would later last in to turn into president of Disney. Punk journalist Caroline Coon was a technical indicator adviser on the film.

It was never given wide release, however will will have the little theatrical release within 1982. The unfortunate line 3 text screening was held around Denver, Colorado. A film was shelved however yet processed its way to the Art-Home circuit. Reported theatrical diarrhea include a Theatre Of The Living Arts in Philadelphia (Friday, August 23rd & Saturday, August 24th, 1985) and a Film Forum in New York City, (Wednesday, March 6th, 1985).

Verity audience for this motiin picture detected it on late nighttime cable television. TV airings in a period of the Eighty's were spotted on the popular America Network Night Flight, Los Angeles local cable Z Channel and Showtime. Since so, the film has be a tremendously sought when bootlegged cult classic. This flick has never been freed in personal videos or even DVD, unfortunate quality black copies float about, though fans hope the DVD release might happen shortly.

the film has a firm cult ensuing & does indicate au fait the large screen now and then. the projectionist at the Nuart cinema around Los Angeles pushed for a print to become processed. Within 1998 a film showed at a Chicago Underground Film Festival. A film was shown inside 2005 at a Sydney Film Festival. A film experienced its virtually all recent television appearance of these nighttime in the late Ninety's in VH1.

Around numbers of ways, A Stains heavy influenced a riot grrl movement of the 1990s and bands prefer Bikini Kill. More diverse fans of the film include musician/actor Courtney Love, writer/comedian Jake Fogelnest, musician/actor Jon Bon Jovi and the late underground film producer Sarah Jacobson. Around 2000, Jacobson directed the short docudrama on the film, for the IFC tv show, Split Screen.