Final film for Christopher Allport, who was killed in a skiing accident before its release.
Jennifer Lawrence, who was 17 during auditions, talked about the embarrassing experience she had auditioning for this film during an interview in 2017. "When I was much younger and starting out, I was told by producers of a film to lose 15 pounds in two weeks. [It was] sort of crazy. One girl before me had already been fired for not losing enough weight fast enough. During this time a female producer had me do a nude line-up with about five women who were much, much, thinner than me. We are stood side-by-side with only paste-ons covering our privates. After that degrading and humiliating line-up, the female producer told me I should use the naked photos of myself as inspiration for my diet." Lawrence claimed that the director at the time only made matters worse and more uncomfortable than they were already. "He asked me to star in a porno as the character, among many other things that are too inappropriate to repeat. He said he didn't know why everyone thought I was so fat, he thought I was 'perfectly f**kable.'"
Tierra Abbott's last role.