This story includes spoilers about the Max original “Sweethearts.”
First-time director Jordan Weiss and partner Dan Brier wanted to write a coming-of-age comedy based on their own male-female friendship.
The two best friends first met at a young writers group, but “Sweethearts,” their Max original movie, is the first project the two have actually written together.
“It grew out of a road trip that we went on in 2019, where we were just driving across the country,” Brier said. “Because we met fresh out of college, there were a lot of stories and people and worlds that we didn’t know about each other’s past.