McFarland, USA (Blu-ray) PG
Champions Can Come From Anywhere.
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McFarland USA (DVD)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 9 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: January 30, 2018
- Originally Released: 2020
- Label: Walt Disney Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Kevin Costner, Martha Higareda, Morgan Saylor & Maria Bello | |
| Performer: | Valente Rodriguez & Alex MacNicoll | |
| Directed by | Niki Caro | |
| Edited by | David Coulson | |
| Composition by | Antonio Pinto | |
| Produced by | Mark Ciardi & Gordon Gray | |
| Director of Photography: | Adam Arkapaw & Dyanna Taylor |
Entertainment Reviews:
80%
88%
[Caro] has an eye for dramatic landscapes, which lends some visual grandeur to the training and racing scenes.
New York Times
Rating: 3.5 --
Yes, "McFarland USA" has the obligatory coda where we found out how everything played out for the coach and the key members of that 1987 team. You should stick around for that.
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 3/5 --
The latest in a long line of condescendingly inspirational sports movies about a catalog Caucasian who learns that people of other races are also capable of being decent.
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Time Out
3 stars out of 4 -- Carlos Pratts is excellent as the fastest and the most troubled runner on the team. Ramiro Rodriguez has some shining moments...
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Sure, at the end of the day, it may be just another sports drama, replete with generic dramatic shifts and cutesy comic relief, but Caro manages to sail us through a tale that ends with an emotional, even inspirational triumph.
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IONCINEMA.com
Rating: A --
A family film that will inspire everyone.
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rachelsreviews.net
Key to the truth of this storytelling lies beyond the performance, beyond the McFarland legacy and embraces the technical aspects and attention to detail of the film...A culturally immersive film, the visuals are evocative and telling.
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Behind The Lens
Product Description:
In this inspiring Disney sports drama based on actual events, Kevin Costner plays a high-school football coach who ends up leading a cross-country track team made up of lower-class Latino students to a state championship.
Jim White (Costner) finds his days as a football coach numbered when an incident with a player leads to his dismissal. Desperate for work, he moves his wife (Maria Bello) and daughters (Morgan Saylor and Elsie Fisher) from Idaho to McFarland, CA, a rural town that's predominately Latino and the only place willing to give him a teaching job. The family feel like they don't fit into their new community, but White has an epiphany one day when he sees his students running from their early-morning farming jobs to school: Why not channel their talents into running cross-country track' Soon enough, White is connecting with his young charges, particularly a gifted athlete named Thomas (Carlos Pratts), and the squad set their sights on a state championship.
Jim White (Costner) finds his days as a football coach numbered when an incident with a player leads to his dismissal. Desperate for work, he moves his wife (Maria Bello) and daughters (Morgan Saylor and Elsie Fisher) from Idaho to McFarland, CA, a rural town that's predominately Latino and the only place willing to give him a teaching job. The family feel like they don't fit into their new community, but White has an epiphany one day when he sees his students running from their early-morning farming jobs to school: Why not channel their talents into running cross-country track' Soon enough, White is connecting with his young charges, particularly a gifted athlete named Thomas (Carlos Pratts), and the squad set their sights on a state championship.
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