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- 2018
- PG
- Mirror
- 1 h 41 m
- 2018
- PG
- Mirror
- 1 h 41 m
Summary Based on the inspiring true story of West High School girls' volleyball team. After the loss of the school's star player, Caroline "Line" Found, in an accident, the remaining team players must band together under the guidance of their tough-love coach in hope of winning the state championship.
Directed By: Sean McNamara
Written By: David Aaron Cohen, Elissa Matsueda
- 2018
- PG
- Mirror
- 1 h 41 m
- 2018
- PG
- Mirror
- 1 h 41 m
The Miracle Season
44
7.6
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Summary Based on the inspiring true story of West High School girls' volleyball team. After the loss of the school's star player, Caroline "Line" Found, in an accident, the remaining team players must band together under the guidance of their tough-love coach in hope of winning the state championship.
Directed By: Sean McNamara
Written By: David Aaron Cohen, Elissa Matsueda
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
44
15% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
69% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
15% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
44
15% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
69% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
15% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Problem is, every time the movie gets near an authentic emotion, it barely pauses before making a run to the next Katy Perry song cue. (Seriously, both “Roar” and “Firework” are featured herein.) Given the care that the adult and teen actors invested in trying to honor their real-life counterparts, this feels lazy. If you like Katy Perry songs that much, you may feel differently.
The Miracle Season is a pleasant surprise, the rare inspirational sports movie that actually earns its tears.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 User Ratings
7.6
71% Positive
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21% Mixed
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7% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 User Ratings
7.6
71% Positive
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
21% Mixed
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3 Ratings
7% Negative
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I did not know the film was based on real life events till the credits rolled. This film is melancholy . It has two Hollywood veterans William Hurt and Helen Hunt . Both do a fine job . But it is the young Erin Moriaty that shines in The Miracle Season . And tragic death of star volleyball player Caroline "Line" Found Danika Yarosh acts with such joy and passion that you feel very connected emotionally . Even if the story line while predicable a tear will run down your face . Excellent emotional film making 9 out of 10 will worth this true story being told in in the art of cinema.
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This is a great movie based on a true story about a Volleyball team (Iowa City West) that has to go through something no team should ever go through, the death of their star player. After winning the state championship the year before, everyone thought they were bound to repeat as champs the next season with a lot of good players coming back. Then the sudden death of their star player, the heart and soul of their team, the girls climb an up hill battle the rest of the year. They rally around each other and end up having a season to remember. It truly is a Miracle Season!
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The Miracle Season moves with a brisk energy and pace, pausing only to draw a few tears hear and there. It's peppered with girl power bangers, training montages and inspirational speeches. But it relies on storytelling that tells rather than shows.
It’s downright depressing to see Oscar winners Hunt and Hurt struggling to make something meaningful out of their superficially written characters.
Sean McNamara’s “Big Game” formula drama is ONLY about the Big Game — an endless procession of them. Characters are shortchanged, emotion impact is deadened. Heck, the dead teen’s funeral/wake is practically covered in a simple, short montage.
It is not unusual for an underdog sports picture to be predictable. But The Miracle Season seems downright preordained, and not just in its arc. The movie is constitutionally incapable of surprise even on a moment-to-moment level.
Miracle is godawful, even by the standards of sports dramas, where healthy doses of manipulation and hagiography are accepted as part of the inspirational formula.
Yes, it's saccharine sweet, but still, an enjoyable, inspirational, heart-warming family-friendly story (sorry for all the adjectives) Don't know why some critics trash this movie. Yes, we've seen this type of "rally around the painful loss, and win for our deceased sports hero" movie before, but it is based on a true story and all that sticky sweet stuff really happened (as you can see by the real pictures and videos during the credits... Caroline truly did make an impact on her town). The acting was good. The story was touching. No cursing or sex. A good, clean, emotional, family film In MY Humble Opinion!
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The Miracle Season will be great and heartwarming. It's just too good! I mean, it's a miracle!
How much a real movie could be!
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Two veteran actors, William Hurt and Helen Hunt, manage to rescue this self-consciously inspirational film after the young actresses playing the central characters in the drama almost kill it with the most downright amateurish overacting I've seen this side of a made-for-TV melodrama. I almost took the DVD out of the player and drove it back to Redbox after the first few scenes. It was, in a word, insufferable--worse than the typical faith-based movies periodically cranked out to give us born-again Christians something that won't offend our sensibilities. Once the actress who played the girl who died was no longer on the screen, the acting seemed at least passably authentic, and the story became a bit more engaging. The shame of it all is that I would like to love films like this one, but they so often are artistic train wrecks.
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