Sereboff got the ball rolling by calling former sitcom star Justine Bateman, whom he'd met on the picket line. (sfgate.com)
However, director Craig Johnson is from the camp of TV sitcom stars making solid indie films (See also: The Duplass Brothers), and Johnson co-wrote the script with Black Swan scribe Mark Heyman. (screenrant.com)
The unforgiving microscope of the media can be harsh to women, and that goes double for someone like Jennifer Aniston, whose bread and butter was once being a winsome sitcom star who could trigger trends with just a haircut. (film.avclub.com)