The film reunited director Paolo Virzì with producers Fabrizio Donvito, Benedetto Habib, and Marco Cohen from the Indiana Production Company, since their collaboration in Human Capital and Like Crazy which also won many festival awards.

[citation needed] Sutherland and Mirren had previously collaborated as a married couple in the Phillip Borsos directed China-set saga, Bethune: The Making of a Hero,[7] and this is their first film together for 27 years.

[citation needed] Principal photography for the film began in July 2016 in Atlanta, where the crew's cars were damaged on set by flooding.

[10] Sony Pictures Classics pre-emptively acquired distribution rights in the U.S., Latin America, Portugal, Eastern Europe, Russia, South Korea, China, India, Southeast Asia (excluding Taiwan and Singapore) and South Africa, while Focus Features acquired U.K. and Irish rights to the film in August 2017.

The website's critical consensus reads, "The Leisure Seeker certainly doesn't suffer from any shortage of acting talent, but it's largely squandered on a predictable, diffuse drama with little to say.