Ellie (Laurie Simmons) is mother in real life of Meryl (Lena Dunham) that artist who Ellie bumps into at the Whitney Museum. Grace Dunham (Lena Dunham's sister and Laurie Simmons's daughter) has a brief apparency as extra at the art gallery at the end of the movie. Similarly, Laurie Simmons was in screen mother and Grace Dunham on screen sister of Lena Dunham respectively on Dunham debut film "Tiny furniture", (2010)
The scenes that Ellie and friends re-enacted belong to these films: "Morocco" (1930); "The misfits" (1961); "Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid" (1948); "Jules and Jim" (1962); "A clockwork orange" (1971) "Bell book and candle" (1958) and "Some like hot" (1959).
Artworks featured at the exhibition "America is hard to see" at the Whitney Museum of America that Ellie is visiting in the initial secuence are by Richard Artschwager, (elevator pattern) Catherine Opie, Lorna Simpson, John Currin, Ed Ruscha, Paul Chan, Nam Jum Paik, Carroll Dunham, Aleksandra Mir, Glenn Ligon and Mary Heilmann (terrace's chairs)
The multicoloured cartoonish like painting that Ellie examines at the exhibition is entitled "Large Bather (quicksand)" by Carroll Duhham, her spouse in real life and father of Lena and Grace Duhham both also appearing in the movie.
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