THEY TREAT YOU LIKE A PICKER

Rating: 8/10 (19 November 2018)

Jim White (Kevin Costner) is a football coach whose luck and temperament has lead him to McFarland, the last stop. He moves his family into the Hispanic community and instructs kids who are "invisible and expendable." His daughter asks, "Are we in Mexico?" After watching some of the kids run, he decides to form a cross country team, which initially shows little support from the community. As Jim and his family give back to the community and strive to understand them, they discover a community who is family and supportive as his family becomes one of them.
Yes this is another true Cinderella story. We know how they end, or else they would have never made the film. This one doesn't involve basketball, football, or AP calculus, which makes it a bit dry. The community drama was minimal, as it would be in real life, and Costner would not have been in my top 10 people to play Jim White.
It is a feel good film based on a true story suitable for most families.