Appeared on Entertainment Weekly's list of The 50 Best Movies You've Never Seen in the Jul 16, 2012 issue.
The swimming hole is actually an abandoned 350 foot deep quarry. DiCillo told all who went in that it was only 25 feet deep max. An expert swimmer at a nearby quarry was bitten by a poisonous snake and drowned several days before filming began.
The video game being played by Al's son, Bobby, near the start of the film is the relatively obscure Ultra Vortek for the Atari Jaguar system.
Features wrestling from Smokey Mountain Wrestling.
The Kid's name is Bucky, but everybody calls him "Kid."