Despite its positive reception and victory at the Sundance Film Festival, the film struggled for months to get picked up by a distributor. According to star Chloë Grace Moretz, the film was the first Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner in over 25 years to not receive immediate distribution (the prior film being Bryan Singer's Public Access (1993)). It was eventually purchased by FilmRise however it received a very limited theatrical run in only 85 theaters in North America.
The clips from the Christian exercise video "Blessercize" are real footage of an actual 90's video.
Due to its limited theatrical release and marketing, the film failed to recoup its paltry $900,000 budget. It grossed just $904,703 in 85 theaters in North America.
Won the Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic) at the Sundance Film Festival, over other acclaimed breakout indie hits such as A24's Eighth Grade (2018), Sorry to Bother You (2018), Blindspotting (2018), American Animals (2018), Wildlife (2018), Blaze (2018), Monsters and Men (2018), HBO's The Tale (2018), and Netflix's The Kindergarten Teacher (2018).
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018) is one of two 2018 movies about teenagers forced to undergo LGBT conversion therapy. The other is Boy Erased (2018).