Sissy Spacek and Schuyler Fisk are real-life mother and daughter; Dustin Hoffman and Jake Hoffman are real-life father and son.
Dustin Hoffman presented Sissy Spacek with the Best Actress Oscar for La ragazza di Nashville (1980), having won Best Actor the previous year for Kramer contro Kramer (1979).
Reunites Sissy Spacek and Henry Thomas. Henry played Sissy's son in his first theatrical film, Lontano dal passato (1981).
Sissy Spacek was originally scheduled to play the role of Ms. Steel in "Boychoir" (2014), co-starring Dustin Hoffman.
Sissy's character name, Tina, is an anagram of the character she played in Lontano dal passato (1981), Nita.