McFarland dos EUA

Título original: McFarland, USA

2015
12
2 h 9 min

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Based on the true story, a group of novice runners from McFarland, an economically challenged town in California, give their all to build a cross-country team under the direction of Coach Jim White, a newcomer to their predominantly Latino high school.

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Jim White se muda com sua família após perder seu último emprego como técnico de futebol, e em sua nova escola ele transforma sete alunos decepcionantes em uma das melhores equipes de cross-... Ler tudoJim White se muda com sua família após perder seu último emprego como técnico de futebol, e em sua nova escola ele transforma sete alunos decepcionantes em uma das melhores equipes de cross-country da região.Jim White se muda com sua família após perder seu último emprego como técnico de futebol, e em sua nova escola ele transforma sete alunos decepcionantes em uma das melhores equipes de cross-country da região.

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AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb

7,4/10

44 mil

SUA AVALIAÇÃO

POPULARIDADE

4.839

295

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Prêmios
- 4 vitórias e 3 indicações no total

Curiosidades
Danny Diaz was not overweight as a kid. He was, however, the seventh person on the team and still instrumental to its 1987 state title win.

Erros de gravação
The film shows White being forced to relocate to McFarland after he is fired from a football coaching job. In fact, the White family moved to McFarland in 1964, 16 years before White started the cross country team.

Citações
Maria Marisol: [reading Jose Cardenas's paper] We fly like blackbirds through the orange groves, floating on a warm wind. When we run, we own the earth. The land is ours. We speak the birds' language. Not immigrant no more. No stupid Mexicans. When we run, our spirits fly. We speak to the gods. When we run, we are the gods.

Conexões
Featured in Late Night with Seth Meyers: Kevin Costner/Portia de Rossi/David Frei (2015)

Trilhas sonoras
Cheer
Written by John F. Burns
Performed by Ohio University Marching 110
Courtesy of Crucial Music Corporation

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7/10

Once he learns the culture

You would not think it at first glance but McFarland, USA turns out to be the site of an inspiring motion picture as well as the title for same. It's the story of a down and out high school coach played by Kevin Costner who in a last chance job takes one at a high school in the small town of McFarland, California having one of the poorest per capita incomes in the USA and made up of a mostly Chicano population who work mostly as fruit pickers. One of the first sites he sees at his new job as a Physical Education Teacher is mom picking up her three sons for their jobs as pickers after school.

But those three brothers turn out to be an integral part of the cross country running team that he creates for the school. These kids see no future other than the fields of citrus fruit to pick and really have no confidence in themselves. Once he learns the culture Costner is able to motivate those kids to achieve not only in track, but in life.

Costner and wife Maria Bello mix so well with them that they even have a Quincinera for their 15 year old daughter Morgan Saylor, a custom in Hispanic families kind of a coming out for a 15 year old daughter. The Quincinera also leads to a crisis of sorts, but it reaffirms the faith and trust that the kids and parents have developed in Costner.

McFarland,USA is a fine family film from the Disney Studios and recommended most definitely for juvenile audiences.