Director Barry Levinson was approached to do a documentary about the Chesapeake bay. He watched another documentey about the Chesapeake bay that talked about the pollution and the lack of fish. He said it was a great documentary but nobody will care about it. And so he said he would take all of the facts about the Chesapeake bay and turn it into a theatrical base piece.

The events take place in 2009. One of the characters shows her symptoms via FaceTime which did not debut until 2010.

Referenced in Film Junk Podcast: Episode 386: The Master and TIFF 2012 (2012)