Don’t Make Me Go

Don’t Make Me Go Movie Details:

Don’t Make Me Go Movie Cast & Characters:

• John Cho as Max Park
• Mia Isaac as Wally Park
• Kaya Scodelario as Annie
• Josh Thomson as Guy Connelly
• Otis Dhanji as Glenn
• Stefania LaVie Owen as Sandra
• Mitchell Hope as Rusty
• Jen Van Epps as Nicole
• Jemaine Clement as Dale Angelo
• Hannah Marks as Tessa

Storyline:

When single father Max (John Cho) discovers he has a terminal disease, he decides to try and cram all the years of love and support he will miss with his teenage daughter Wally (Mia Isaac) into the time he has left with her. With the promise of long-awaited driving lessons, he convinces Wally to accompany him on a road trip from California to New Orleans for his 20th college reunion, where he secretly hopes to reunite her with her mother who left them long ago. The movie explores the unbreakable, eternal bond between a father and daughter from both sides of the generational divide with heart and humor along for the ride.

About Don’t Make Me Go Movie:

The script written by Vera Herbert was on the 2012 Black List of the most-liked unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. The first draft was dated June 8, 2012, and it was originally titled A Story About My Father.

On March 24, 2021, Amazon Studios signed on to develop the film, with Hannah Marks set to direct and Herbert writing and executive producing the film, with Donald De Line, Peter Saraf, and Leah Holzer producing.

On March 24, 2021, it was announced that John Cho had been cast in the film. On April 13, 2021, it was announced that Mia Isaac had joined the cast, and Kaya Scodelario joined the cast on August 13, 2021.

The story was originally written for a White family, but the director, Hannah Marks felt that Cho was best suited for the role after seeing him in a previous father role in Searching. And after Isaac joined, Marks said, “We did adapt the script in certain areas to feel like it was customized to them.”

Filming commenced in New Zealand in May 2021.

The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 13, 2022, and was released on Prime Video on July 15, 2022.