Ben Stiller's first starring role in seven years.
The four Kicklighter siblings are played by four real-life siblings (Janson).
In a 2024 interview with Deadline, David Gordon Green spoke about the experience of shooting the film on location in Ohio: "I do a lot of production in Los Angeles and New York, cities that are numb, if not annoyed, every time a camera truck pulls up down the street. But here, it was so welcoming, so inviting. It was just a beautiful experience to take an art project like this and start showing a community that doesn't get burdened with this, but gets to feel the beauty of it. Last weekend, I went back to Wilmington, Ohio and we showed the movie at the Murphy Theatre, where we filmed some of the sequences, and it was really fun being able to show people full circle. I'm not even sure some of them knew what we were making was a movie. I think they just thought we were doing some performance art in the street. So to be able to invite the whole town, the community that was so supportive of us in those days, to come and share in the experience of the final product was really special."
David Gordon Green's return to character-driven independent cinema after directing multiple television episodes, as well as directing the Halloween trilogy and L'Exorciste : Dévotion (2023) for Blumhouse Productions.
The street that the real life Murphy Theatre is located on is a one way street, cars are frequently shown driving down it the wrong way in the film.