Director Greg Berlanti was allergic to the room used as Dennis' bedroom and directed many of those scenes from outside. This was the first movie filmed by director Greg Berlanti. The Howie/Marshall storyline is semi-autobiographical to a relationship writer/director Greg Berlanti had. As Greg Berlanti was a writer/producer of the series Dawson's Creek, he showed the script for this movie to one of his favorite actors Kerr Smith who was part of the Dawson's Creek cast. Kerr loved the s ...[Read Story ]