War Eagle, Arkansas is a feature film based on two real-life friends, Tim Ballany and Vincent Insalaco III, growing up together in Arkansas and facing a crossroads in life as they graduate from high school.
The film's budget was a modest $1.1 million, and was provided by Executive Producer Vincent Insalaco Sr. and a group of private investors.
Of additional benefit to the film was a grant from Panavision, under a new filmmaker's program, which was based in large part on the screenplay by Graham Gordy, whose other film credits include The Love Guru and My Dog Skip.
War Eagle, Arkansas was released in the U.S. by Empire Film Group on June 12, 2009.
Philip Martin of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, wrote "My opinion of the movie hasn't changed over the months - it's an example of tough-minded, well-executed independent filmmaking rooted in the specific circumstances of credible human characters that requires no special dispensation for being locally produced.