Synopsis
After the tragic death of star volleyball player Caroline "Line" Found, a team of dispirited high school girls must band together under the guidance of their tough-love coach in hopes of winning the state championship!
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Cast
- Erin MoriartyKelley Fliehler
- Danika YaroshCaroline Found
- Helen HuntKathy Bresnahan
- William HurtErnie Found
- Nesta CooperLizzie Ackerman
- Jason Gray-StanfordScott Sanders
- Natalie SharpMack
- Tiera SkovbyeBrie
- Lillian Doucet-RocheTaylor
- Burkely DuffieldAlex
Recommendations
- 63
Washington Post
The rest of the film has a cozy TV-commercial vibe, pumped by tunes from Katy Perry and the inevitable Neil Diamond. It’s no champion, but it’s still a reasonably good cry. - 60
Variety
Even if you see through the benign (manipulative) strategies of The Miracle Season, which isn’t hard to do, resistance is futile. You will surrender. You’ll feel the tear on your cheek, the lump in your throat, the reverent huggy glory of it all. - 60
Arizona Republic
The Miracle Season is a pleasant surprise, the rare inspirational sports movie that actually earns its tears. - 50
Movie Nation
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. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
There’s authenticity in the coach’s belted khaki shorts and in the anguish Hunt brings to a moment where the coach no longer can bear being at her star player’s wake. This moment is the film’s most moving until images of the real coach, and real Caroline Found, accompany the credits. - 50
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
It’s downright depressing to see Oscar winners Hunt and Hurt struggling to make something meaningful out of their superficially written characters. - 45
TheWrap
Ultimately, The Miracle Season mistakes an inspiring true story for one that needs or deserves to be told cinematically; it isn’t awful, but it’s not a film, it’s a tribute, and unfortunately, one to the memory of a young woman who would be better honored by people actually “living like Line” than watching a formulaic, fictionalized retelling of her community learning what that means. - 42
The A.V. Club
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.
