This film is the first script written by Kelly Fremont, and many of the stories in it are from Fremont's own personal feelings. When writing the screenplay, Fremont did not think too much about the economic trauma that American society was suffering, but because he felt that thousands of freshly graduated college students continued to face the same predicament as Leiden in the film.
After several turns of the script, it fell into the hands of producer Ali Bell, who passed the script to Ivan Reitman. Both showed great interest in the script. With the assistance of Ivan Reitman, the film soon entered the intense preparatory work. Ivan Reitman first showed Kelly Fremont the organizational structure that a movie script should have, retaining all the original characters and the overall story frame. Then, under the guidance of Reitman, Fremont adjusted the rhythm and part of the plot of the script to make it more suitable for the expression of the film
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