It stars Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots, Kathryn Hahn, Will Forte, Rhys Ifans, and Jennifer Aniston.

Izzy, keeping her promise to "Derek", shows up to audition for a part in the play as a call girl, unaware that Derek/Arnold is the director.

Delta turns to Seth, who has long professed his love for her, for comfort, but finds another call girl hiding in his bathroom.

In an interview some time later, Izzy says that it closed in a week because wives from Long Island are not interested in seeing a play about call girls.

She's Funny That Way originated in the mid-1990s when People reported the film would be going into pre-production, with the title Squirrels to the Nuts and featuring Tatum O'Neal in the leading role.

Bogdanovich and Stratten, who were in financial distress at the time trying to buy back They All Laughed (1981), decided to write a comedy to uplift their spirits.

Due to many people misinterpreting it as a children's film, Bogdanovich changed the title from Squirrels to the Nuts to She's Funny That Way.

Bogdanovich originally wrote the role of Arnold Albertson for John Ritter, but due to his death, he shelved the project.

[13] When the script was originally written, Bogdanovich envisioned John Ritter, Cybill Shepherd and co-writer Louise Stratten in the lead roles.

[14] In 2012, when the film was officially announced, Wilson, Brie Larson, and Olivia Wilde were signed on in lead roles.

[16] Aniston was initially offered the part of Delta Simmons, Arnold Albertson's wife, but she favored the role of the therapist, in which she was cast.

[19] The same week, the casting of Joanna Lumley,[9] Debi Mazar,[9] Rhys Ifans,[20] Lucy Punch,[20] Ahna O'Reilly,[20] and Jake Hoffman[20] was set.

[31] In 2020, a copy of Bogdanovich's original cut of the film, still titled Squirrels to the Nuts, was found on eBay by James Kenney, an English lecturer at City University of New York.

[32][33] In the wake of Bogdanovich's death in January 2022, the cut was shown at New York's Museum of Modern Art beginning on March 28, 2022.

The site's critical consensus states: "She's Funny That Way is an affectionate, talent-filled throwback to screwball comedies of old—which makes it even more frustrating that the laughs are disappointingly few and far between.