The film stars Rene Russo, Oliver Platt, Johnny Simmons, Jane Levy, and Marc Maron and is based on the true story and the 2007 documentary of the same name.

Echternkamp tells the story of his relationship with his parents, his mother Cindy Brown and his step-father Frank Garcia.

They sleep in separate parts of the house and, since the floor he spends most of the day on doesn't have a toilet, he uses coffee cans.

Cindy vows to respect his personal space and announces she's been sober 15 months.

her plan to fix her teeth, get a high end job and/or marry a producer and divorce Frank.

That's when he discovers they spent his savings for Art Center without his knowledge, so he has no money to study film there.

makes Cindy repeat her promise to change on camera and vows to record them both 24/7 so he'll have evidence when they don't follow through.

Frank had been the bass player of OXO, an '80s band with the one-hit wonder song "Whirly Girl".

asks Frank why he didn't become a wildly successful musician, he vaguely blames the music industry.

Then he mentions seeing an extremely enthusiastic fan and felt uncomfortable with the responsibility involved in being famous.

shows her his collection of Polaroids of women he's had one-nighters with, they both agree they don't believe in love, Kate confesses she used to be fat and hates men with tiny penises, he admits he's often cheated.

Telling Cindy excitedly about a short he posted of his footage which had over 20,000 views, an inspired G.J.

The movie includes a rearranged version of "Whirly Girl" and some excerpts from its video clip.

He made the documentary Frank and Cindy in 2007 after filming his mother and step-father for a year.

[6] Production on the film started in August 2013 with John Pierce, Scoot McNairy, Bill Perkins to produce.