Costing US$4 million, Miss Firecracker was the first production for Corsair Pictures, a division of United Artists Communications. Scheduled for release in February 1989, it debuted on April 28 of that year and grossed US$1.85 million in North America. A VHS release from HBO Home Video followed in November. Miss Firecracker was released on DVD on May 25, 2004 from Millennium Entertainment.
