Though he doesn't comment on the movie often, Lewis said "I was ashamed of the work and I was grateful I had the power to contain it all and never let anyone see it" in 2013, adding "It could have been wonderful but I slipped up -- I didn't quite get it."
In 1992, he said, "This movie is so drastically wrong, its pathos and its comedy are so wildly misplaced, that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve on what it really is."
He gave a copy of his movie to the Library of Congress, who agreed not to show it 'til... oh, look at that, June 2024. However, the Library seems reluctant, or unable, to screen it.