Based on the stage play of the same name. Lois Smith reprises her role as Marjorie, having previously appeared in two productions of the play.
Filmed in 13 days, with the actors working 12 of them.
The film won the Sloan Feature Film Prize, which includes a $20,000 cash award, presented at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. The award jury awarded the film for its "imaginative and nuanced depiction of the evolving relationship between humans and technology, and its moving dramatization of how intelligent machines can challenge our notions of identity, memory and mortality."
In one scene in the kitchen, there is a print by American-Latvian artist Vija Celmins prominently displayed. Many of Celmins' artworks are identical copies of everyday objects or photorealistic drawings of natural phenomena.
The movie they're watching on TV is My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), with Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz.