The medical name of the illness that Heather Evans (Kim Basinger) was said to have in the film was "pathological intoxication" which is a true real-life medical disorder that can exist. Also known as "pathological alcohol intoxication", according to M.H. Hollender in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, the condition "appears as a diagnostic term in DSM-II and DSM-III, is defined in a psychiatric dictionary and is described in several textbooks".
This was the second movie in about five years where actress Kim Basinger portrayed a character who underwent a dramatic personality change after drinking alcohol. The first film had been Blake Edwards' comedy Bella pero peligrosa (1987).
Uma Thurman's then husband, Gary Oldman, apparently has a cameo here. He had also appeared in Phil Joanou's previous movie "State of Grace".
Part of an early 1990s American Hollywood cycle of suspense-thriller movies which included various neo-noir and neo-Hitchcock films.
About Deseo y decepción (1992), Kim Basinger has said: "I was in my own world for that film. I never saw it."