Alessandro Nivola missed the reference to his character singing a hymn when he read the script, and was unaware that he had to do so until a few days before his "singing scene" was scheduled to shoot. He only had a few days to rehearse, and his singing in the scene is recorded live, as the budget did not allow for it to be recorded on a sound stage. For the house in which most of the film takes place, two real houses in Winston-Salem were used, one for internal shots and another for ...[Read Story ]