The Confirmation/Trivia

Category:Trivia facts
* Patton Oswalt improvised the German Pancakes story on the walk back to the car. He did a few takes of the scene, and invented a different story each time.
* Filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia.
* The book Anthony (Jaeden Lieberher) is reading, is "Undeniable: Evolution, and the Science of Creation" by Bill Nye the Science Guy. Writer and Director Bob Nelson and Bill Nye were cast members on the Seattle comedy show "Almost Live!" There is also a poster of Bill Nye in Anthony's room, next to one of Albert Einstein.
* Glenn Beck, who plays the glaring old man in the church, was in two Stanley Kubrick films, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and Dr. Stangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).
* Walt and Anthony are watching, "The Rifleman" (1959) at Walt's home, starring Chuck Connors as Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as Mark McCain.
* The book "Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation" that Anthony resumes reading multiple times in the movie, is by Bill Nye, the Science Guy, and is his treatise that evolution is much more than a rebuttal to creationism. It is an essential way to understand how nature works, and to change the world. That Anthony reads this in his spare time, foreshadows his straight A report card, and contradicts his age of eight (third grade). Neither Anthony's age, nor his grade in school is ever mentioned in the film. Still, many reviewers refer to him as eight years old, so that age was probably cited in the film's publicity release. This would have been motivated because Anthony is to have confirmation and First Communion the next weekend, something usually done at age seven in North American Catholic Churches. Jaeden Lieberher (Anthony) was eleven when filming began on 11/11/2014 and would turn twelve on 1/4/2015.
* The cities of Kent and Renton are mentioned, both of which are located in south King County in Washington State.
* Directorial debut of Bob Nelson.