[1] Cassie Cranston is a newspaper sex columnist returning to her hometown for her mother's funeral for the first time since being slut-shamed by her high school classmates who caught her trying to lose her virginity.

[4] On May 13, 2015, the film was released in select theaters and on demand in Canada by Northern Banner and in the United States by Gravitas Ventures.

[6] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 39 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.

[7] Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a negative score of 1.5 stars out of 4, criticizing the script, which he wrote "alternates between broad shtick, often set to cheeky pop music that only serves to hammer home the overacting and the stagey sequences, and “heavy” moments of truth that feel clunky and forced.

"[8] Diego Semerene of Slant Magazine gave the film half a star out of four, writing that "The ingenuity of writer-director Jeremy LaLonde’s How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town ends with its title", and described the characters as behaving "like caricatures moved by uninspired dialogue, not desire.