This movie was based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Michael Zadoorian.
This is Writer and Director Paolo Virzì's first full English-language movie.
The scene at the Trump Rally was filmed in Marietta, Georgia in Marietta Square In front of the historic Strand Theatre.
This movie reunited Writer and Director Paolo Virzì with Producers Fabrizio Donvito, Benedetto Habib, and Marco Cohen from the Indiana Production Company, since their collaboration on Human Capital (2013) and Like Crazy (2016), which also won many festival awards.