Trivia

The film was made and released only about a year after its source stage play of the same name written by David Williamson had been first performed in 1987.

There were two people called "David Williamson" involved in the production. There was David Williamson the camera operator and David Williamson the screenwriter and source playwright. Both coincidentally had worked on the writer Williamson's The Removalists (1975) around thirteen years earlier where the other "David Williamson" had crewed as a focus puller.

Both Australian actresses Robyn Nevin and Ruth Cracknell had portrayed their parts in the movie in the film's source stage production.

The character of the daughter Hannah was dropped from the film's source David Williamson stage play for this filmed adaptation.

The film's title is a "Wizard of Oz" reference. The yellow brick road though instead in this Down Under Australian story is the trip from Melbourne to Sydney of which the latter is the business heart of the Australian film industry - "The Emerald City". Characters in the film migrate from Melbourne to Sydney to purse the Australian film industry equivalent of the American Dream. Writer David Williamson had previously consulted on the Australian film Twentieth Century Oz (1976), made by his brother-in-law Chris Löfvén', which was a 70s rock musical updated version of the Frank Baum's "Oz" legend, for which Williamson received a "special thanks" credit.