Overview
Don't Make Me Go is a 2022 American road trip film directed by Hannah Marks, written by Vera Herbert, and starring John Cho and Mia Isaac. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 13, 2022, and was released on Amazon Prime Video on July 15, 2022.
Plot
After discovering that he has a terminal disease, a single father takes his reluctant teenage daughter on a cross country road trip to find her estranged mother, as he tries to teach her everything she might need to know for the rest of her life along the way.
Cast
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
Production
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.
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