Made by Ken Tipton as a way of "proving" himself as a director in order to secure funding for his pet project, Heart of the Beholder (2005), a movie about his experiences as the owner of a chain of video stores which were forced out of business by religious protesters in St. Louis, Missouri, when the stores were the only ones in the city stocking The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Taylor Ball plays a 12-year-old genius. After making this short, he won the role of a 12-year-old genius on the CBS sitcom Still Standing (2002).