Sports movies based on true stories have an added impact on audiences and Kevin Costner embraces one such inspiring feel-good story. McFarland, USA is a 2015 film that stars Costner as Jim White ...

With Horizon: An American Saga Part 1 out this weekend, many may be thinking back to other Kevin Costner movies that have ... a cross country coach in McFarland, USA (2015) and then a NASA ...

No sport gives itself over to mystical lyricism the way baseball does, and Kevin Costner ... probably enjoy “McFarland, USA,” Costner’s latest stab at a populist sports movie — a genre ...

The stirring true story of how a scrappy Latino high-school running team beat the odds is treated as a Kevin Costner vehicle first and foremost in “McFarland, USA,” a cross-cultural cross ...

McFarland, USA director Niki Caro discusses the movie, the challenges of making her first sports movie, working with Kevin Costner and more. McFarland, USA opens Friday. SI: Given your body of ...

“McFarland, USA” invokes an old sports movie trope: the inspiring coach and his noble, suffering team. But the good intentions can’t help it sprint past cliche. Kevin Costner is Jim ...

By Patrick Shanley Based on the true story of McFarland High School’s 1987 cross country team, Kevin ... movie than sweeping music and celebrating in slow motion. It all stems from Costner ...

Disney is moving McFarland USA, the sports biopic starring Kevin Costner and Maria Bello, out of Thanksgiving weekend and into a slot early next year. McFarland, whose title has been lengthened to ...

Disney's inspirational film "McFarland, USA" is based on the ... played by long-running sports movie icon Kevin Costner. Coming from a predominately Latino high school with much less resources ...

Look, if you liked “The Blind Side,” you’ll probably enjoy “McFarland, USA,” Costner’s latest stab at a populist sports movie — a genre he has carried and owned throughout his 30 ...

By Patrick Shanley Based on the true story of McFarland High School’s 1987 cross country team, Kevin ... movie than sweeping music and celebrating in slow motion. It all stems from Costner ...