On July 30, 2019, the Ruderman Family Foundation honored this movie with its Seal of Authentic Representation for accurate depictions of people with disabilities.
It became a sleeper hit, becoming the highest grossing independent film of 2019.
Two former professional wrestlers appear in the movie, Jake Roberts aka Jake the Snake, and Mick Foley who wrestled under the monikers Mankind, Cactus Jack, and Dude Love.
One of Bruce Dern's earliest roles was in Pas de printemps pour Marnie (1964), opposite Dakota Johnson's grandmother, Tippi Hedren. He also appeared in Smile (1975) and Les hommes de l'ombre (1996) with Johnson's mother Melanie Griffith and in Django Unchained (2012) with Johnson's father Don Johnson.
The distance to the wrestling school (from Manteo to Ayden) is 102 miles as the crow flies (126 miles by road, southwest on US-64).