Megan Park who wrote and directed the film cast Shailene Woodley to play Anna, Vada's therapist. Shailene Woodley and Megan Park played high school classmates in the teen drama series The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008)
Megan Park's directorial debut.
Co-stars Jenna Ortega and Maddie Ziegler were born in the same month and in the same year, with Ortega being only three days older.