The Apostle

The Apostle Trivia

Although they play mother and son, June Carter Cash is in reality only 2 years older than Robert Duvall.
The lines of the radio owner during the scene where Billy Bob Thornton is talked out of bulldozing the church were improvised.
Robert Duvall had to use $4 million of his own money to complete the film. When the movie did well at the box office the distributors reimbursed him.
Robert Duvall wrote the script in the 1980s and was turned down by many studios before he financed the film himself.