Genre:
Drama
Directed
by: Niki Caro
Starring:
Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Morgan Saylor
Running
time: 129 minutes
Based
on true events, McFarland tells the story of football coach Jim White, who gets
fired from his teaching and coaching job after an altercation with a player. He
moves to McFarland, California, a predominantly Mexican-American community, to
teach and coach football. He finds that the high school kids there might not be
at their best on the gridiron, but they sure can run. So, he decides to train
them to become cross country runners.
McFarland
is a very inspiring movie about kids who don’t have much hope for the future.
From one generation to the other, they are produce-pickers and their lives are
in the fields. Through sport, they managed to find a purpose and it pushed them
to further heights than they could ever have imagined.
Every
actor and actresses played their parts well here. No complaint from me there.
Story might have dragged a bit and it might have gotten overly dramatic and
patriotic at times (it is a Disney movie after all), but, overall, this is a
very inspiring movie that is worth our time. It is also very nice to have a
movie that shows us Mexican-American people in a positive light. What we see is
a hard working group of people with strong family values, and that is something
that is lost on many of us in this day and age.
Rating: ««««
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