The producers put out a casting call for girls who were "fat" or "overweight", and had thousands of girls show up who were clearly not fat or overweight, but all thought that they were.
Some of the cast dubbed their characters in Spanish
Was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, who deemed it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" in 2019.
America Ferrera's debut.
At 1:14:23 in Ana is going to see her father who is doing the landscaping at a mansion. The mansion is the same one used for Hillary Whitney's mansion in the movie Beaches (1987).