Director and co-writer Ethan Hawke first became interested in the works of Flannery O'Connor in his early teens, when he and his mother lived in Atlanta, Georgia and his mother worked selling textbooks to local colleges. Hawke read so much of O'Connor's works that he assumed she was as well known outside of his household as Abraham Lincoln.
Filmed in Louisville, Kentucky.
Cooper Hoffman's second film after his acting debut in Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza (2021).
The first theatrical film for editor Barry Poltermann that isn't a documentary since The Pool (2007), and also his second collaboration with Ethan Hawke.