The second film in which Helen Hunt's character surfs. Her first was Soul Surfer (2011).
Surfing scenes filmed at Malibu Pier, Santa Monica Pier, and Huntington Beach Pier.
Helen Hunt's second time in the director's chair for a feature film.
The restaurant where Angelo (Brenton Thwaites) tells the other writer that he's so lucky to be writing in a place like this is "Neptune's Net" which also was in a scene from The Fast and the Furious (2001). It also appeared in Point Break (1991).
The movie on the television that Jackie (Helen Hunt) and Angelo (Brenton Thwaites) watch after his date leaves (early in the movie), is Young Frankenstein (1974).