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A coach decides to train a student with natural athletic talent. Tragedy strikes, forcing the student to confront everything that has been holding him back. McFarland, USA: 2015 Biographical Cross country Kevin Costner portrays Jim White, who built the predominantly Latino McFarland High School into a California cross country power. Race: 2016 ...
The film was co-produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Mayhem Pictures. Based on the true story of a 1987 cross country team from a mainly Latino high school in McFarland, California, the film stars Kevin Costner as Jim White, the school's coach, who leads the team to win a state championship. [4] The film also stars Maria Bello and Morgan Saylor.
Joe Newton. Joe Newton (April 13, 1929 – December 9, 2017) was a high school cross country and track coach at York High School in Elmhurst, Illinois.In sixty years of coaching between 1956 and 2016, he won 28 Illinois state cross country titles [1] and one track state title.
Track was his son's first love, but he chose football. Bobby Taylor is back in Texas, where his two younger sons, Alexander, 11, and Asher, 8, play flag football, soccer and basketball.
Ken Carter, education activist and former high school basketball coach portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson, in the 2005 film Coach Carter [10] Noel Chestnut, track team coach and prison guard portrayed in the 2008 film Racing for Time [11] Joe Louis Clark, high school principal credited with the turnaround of a troubled and dangerous New Jersey high ...
The film received mixed reviews from critics, with praise for the sports sequences and Becker's performance but criticism for the screenplay, with many labelling it cliché. Despite this, Goal! is considered to be a cult film , with Newcastle United , the team featured in the film, seeing a direct rise in popularity as a result.
As a filmmaker, Sean Penn has always had a flinty integrity, but the movies he directs work so hard to channel the values of ’70s films — they’re moody and fatalistic, with furrowed brows ...
Jimmie "Jim" White (born May 14, 1941, in Sweetwater, Texas) [1] is an American track and field coach, a former high school cross country coach at McFarland High School. From 1987 to 2003, his team won nine state championships in Divisions III and IV, as well as numerous lesser titles.