This wasn’t bad. It was nice, one of those lovely stories based on a true one, which makes it all more precious. In the ‘Ron Clark story’ there were children studying, here there are boys running :-) It is based in McFarland, an American city were people are very poor and kids have to work a lot to help their families. Coach Jim White (Kevin Costner) moves there with his family because he lost yet another job and could only find one here. At first it seems the worst thing that could happen, there’s despair in their faces, but they have to give it a try. Soon White sees a boy running home from school and seeing how fast he is , he has an idea. He starts a cross-country team. He starts coaching seven boys of his school, meets the Diaz family, even goes to work in the fields with them to understand what their life is; slowly he makes a team out of them, and they accept him. At the end, the team wins the State Title, changing a lot for them because they all got a chance to continue their studies and have a better life.
When the team starts winning, White finds himself having job offers from ‘better’ schools, and for a moment he seriously consider accepting it, after his daughter got hurt while she was out with the kids and other friends. His wife opposes this decision, saying that when there was trouble everybody stood in front of the girl to protect her, and that Julie would not be safer somewhere else, so at the end coach White chooses to stay at McFarland. :-)
ITA McFarland
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