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Feb 22, 2015 · We pit the McFarland, USA true story against the movie. Meet the real Jim White, Thomas Valles, Cheryl White and McFarland's Diaz family.
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.
- $17 million
- Gordon Gray, Mark Ciardi
Nov 29, 2020 · What we are reminded of is that McFarland USA is based on a true story but it is not a documentary. Hollywood's fictional fingers are all over how the story is framed but in the big...
But like any movie based or inspired by a true story, not everything in “McFarland, USA” is literally true. The scenes of the state race are the most prominent for Johnny Ortiz, the...
Feb 27, 2015 · The film is based on the true story of a small Central California high school coach that took an unlikely group of immigrant students and transformed them into a distance-running dynasty,...
- Jon Gugala
Jun 7, 2016 · The 2015 film “McFarland, USA” tells the true story of California high school cross-country coach Jim White (Kevin Costner) and his underdog team of Latino runners who had never competed in the sport before and who, when they weren’t training, had to help their parents pick crops in the fields.
Feb 20, 2015 · McFarland, USA: Directed by Niki Caro. With Kevin Costner, Ramiro Rodriguez, Carlos Pratts, Johnny Ortiz. Jim White moves his family after losing his last job as a football coach, and at his new school he turns seven disappointing students into one of the best cross-country teams in the region.
