A 2022 feel good film supposedly based on a real-life story of a 'on the spectrum' high schooler, Major Dodson, who after getting fed up being home schooled convinces his parents, Amy Smart & Rory Cochrane, it's time to go to school where Cochrane conveniently is the football coach. Dodson makes friends immediately picking up a female admirer, Layla Felder & the scorn of a smarmy school bully & his cronies but the real latchkey friendship is formed between him & a sneaker store owner, Oscar nominee Barkhad Abdi, over running which comes in handy since the small town's mayor, Reno Wilson, will launch the town's inaugural marathon which Dodson wants to train & participate in. W/Cochrane taking a sabbatical from the football year to coach his son, we get a tug at the heartstrings tale of overcoming adversity or we would if writer/director Kim Bass (who created Sister, Sister among others) didn't make a great afterschool special which was accidentally released in theaters judging by the bad line readings from usually solid actors & pedestrian lensing which does the film no favors when if the film was packaged as faith based, even the curious Christian moviegoer would've given the film a shot & maybe forgive it for its trespasses.
