Premiered as the opening film of the 2020 Berlinale.
Another movie that depicts J. D. Salinger's reclusiveness is "Coming through the Rye" (2015), where the autor is portrayed by Chris Cooper.
Margaret's boyfriend's novel, in the passage read in voiceover, includes a reference to "phonies," a term famously used by Salinger's Holden Caufield character.
Joanna Smith Rakoff: the movie's real life subject matter appears when Joanna visits The New Yorker and sees Max with a woman entering an elevator.