Second theatrical feature-film release from then-new Walt Disney Pictures' new studio branding of Touchstone Films. The first, Splash (1984), had debuted earlier in 1984, the year "Country" premiered. The name was re-branded to Touchstone Pictures in 1987.
Actress-producer Jessica Lange conceived the idea for the film from being inspired to make a contemporary version of The Grapes of Wrath (1940).
Debut theatrical feature-film of high-school senior Levi L. Knebel (Carlisle Ivy) who, according to an article in the 22 October 1984 "PEOPLE", had only applied to work on the film as a farm machinery driver. He'd had no intentions to act in the film, which remains his sole filmed production credit.
One of five cinema collaborations of actors Sam Shepard and Jessica Lange; the others were Frances (1982),j Far North (1988), Crimes of the Heart (1986), and Don't Come Knocking (2005).
Very similar in theme to Places in the Heart (1984), which came out the same year and was part of the Farm Cycle of movies that came out of Hollywood in the early and mid 1980s, which also includes The River (1984) with Sissy Spacek.
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