* OneSceneWonder: Creator/RandyQuaid as the farmer Leroy who only agrees to trade his truck for Moze's car if Moze can beat him in a "rassling" match.
* HarsherInHindsight: Addie and Moze's cantankerous relationship became a little harder to watch after it became public in later years that Ryan O'Neal had become estranged with Tatum and his other children due to his volatile behavior.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To Chaplin's ''Film/TheKid1921'', another movie depicting a con artist taking on an orphan and making the child help with their schemes.