The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love - Production

Production

Maggenti started a script with an image in her head of a tomboy with love notes in her back pocket, gradually adding more characters such as her tomboy’s family and her love interest. (Later, she realized this character was based on her first girlfriend.) Between 1992 and 1994 her script, a dark look at the middle and end of this relationship, grew until Maggenti abandoned it.

The film’s future associate producer Melissa Painter convinced Maggenti to shop the story around as an independent film; when two producers asked how the two very different girls got together, Maggenti improvised the story of the beginning of their relationship. The producers were delighted with this story, and Maggenti wrote a new script in eight days; surprising herself that her script was now a comedic farce, not about gay love or coming out, but about teenagers’ first love.

Shooting was completed in 21 days. The Horace Mann School in Riverdale, Bronx in New York City filled the part of Randy and Evie’s high school.

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