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New Jersey | Equality
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Best Film | 2015 | Peter
Best Grownup Love Story | 2016 | Julianne
Most Egregious Age Difference Between the Leading Man and the Love Interest | 2016 | Ellen
LGBTQ Film of the Year | 2016
Outstanding Film Wide Release | 2016
Best International Actress | 2017 | Julianne
Best Feature | 2015 | Peter
Best Film | 2015 | Peter
2015 | Julianne
2015 | Julianne
Best Screen Couple | 2015 | Ellen
Budget 7,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 573,335 USD
The real Stacie Andree, Dane Wells and Steven Goldstein can be seen as extras in the film. Stacie can be seen wearing a black cardigan behind Elliot Page (who portrays her) in the third Freeholder meeting, sitting in the right aisle seat of the second row. Dane portrays the police officer, between two taller officers, who is handed a box of ashes. Steven can be seen in the second Freeholder meeting, seated behind Steve Carell (who portrays him), holding a red sign and seated in the aisle seat of the right side second row (the same seat that the real Stacie Andree can be seen in, later in the film).
Screenwriter Ron Nyswaner wanted to tell the story of Laurel Hester's legal battle after seeing Cynthia Wade's Oscar-winning documentary short.
Elliot Page came out as a lesbian during filming.
Salesian High School in New Rochelle, NY denied a scene to be filmed there due to the films dialogue and their religious views on homosexuality.
Although the film is set in New Jersey, it was filmed in New York due to its more generous tax incentives for filmmakers.
"[From Trailer] [about Laurel's appeal being turned down] Steven Goldstein: This is an outrageous miscarriage of justice. Their next meeting we show up with 100 protesters. Dane Wells: Radicals and strangers from New York aren't going to convince these guys. Steven Goldstein: I am not a radical. I am a middle-class, Jewish homosexual from New Jersey. How about you, sweetheart? Dane Wells: I'm a straight, white, ex-Protestant, atheist cop. You okay with that, *sweetheart*? Steven Goldstein: I am. That is very hot."
"Laurel Hester: When my heterosexual partners die. Their pension goes to their spouses. But because my partner is a woman, I don't get to do that. In my twenty three years of being a police officer, I've never asked for special treatment. I'm only asking for equality."
