Remember the Goal

2016

Drama / Sport

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 68%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 68% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 452 452

christian film

Director

Dave Christiano Photo
Dave Christiano

Top cast

Abby Glover Photo
Abby Glover as Youth Group Member
Allee Sutton Hethcoat Photo
Allee Sutton Hethcoat as Courtney Smith-Donnelly
Lea Hutton Beasmore Photo
Lea Hutton Beasmore as Race Attendee
Steve D. Scott Photo
Steve D. Scott as Race Attendee
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23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
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23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by teepeeb 8 / 10

Beautiful Movie: Highly Recommended

For a sport's fan give this movie a 7/10 for trusting your coach. As a Christian, add a star for trusting God. The movie is very clean. I would not hesitate to let an eight year old watch this movie. The PG rating is nonsense. The reference to drug use (weed) is positive in context.
Reviewed by gimlet_eye 8 / 10

My Favorite Endurance Sports Movie, so far

The title I've given this review may seem a bit back-handed or gratuitous (like the commercials for Christianity embedded in the movie), because there's very little competition in this space. In fact, the only other fairly recent movies about distance runners that come to mind are McFarland USA (2015, with Kevin Costner), and Saint Ralph (2004, with Campbell Scott). These are both well made movies, with star actors that I like, but, like most sports movies, they fail to dig into the technical as well as the psychological guts of the sport. Most sports movies are movies about underdogs triumphing in the end (in fact this is a formula that many reviewers are heartily tired of), but the ones I like best also feature coaches who have the insight to imagine a radically different approach that challenges orthodoxy, and the moral fortitude to pursue it and stake their all on the outcome.Hence my love for such true story based movies as Moneyball (2011, with Brad Pitt), Coach Carter (2005, with Samuel L. Jackson), and even Draft Day (2014, with Kevin Costner).Although this movie is strictly fiction (and Christianized fiction at that), and can be criticized for various improbabilities, the coach in this movie likewise embodies most of the virtues of the ideal man of Kipling's poem, If (including, literally, filling "the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run") - even though she is a comely young woman. And as with the other movies of this sort that I've listed, this one is charged with genuine suspense because you wonder how in the h--- the protagonist is going to pull off his/her plan - which, of course, I will not disclose as that would be spoiling.And finally, although I am not a Christian myself, I am also not a disrespecter of Christianity, and, unlike certain other reviewers who are alienated by the Christian themes of faith, hope, and love (maybe because Christianity was shoved down their craw in their youth, or otherwise out of unrecognized envy), I congratulate the director, Dave Christiano (whose IMDB bio acknowledges his didactic Christian intent) on the appropriateness both of the behavior and of the Christian parables his protagonist invokes.Could this short, low-budget, movie be better? Sure, with a bit more time to develop the specifics of training, and the depth psychology of the relationships, and perhaps to smooth over the improbabilities with circumstantial exposition, such as one would find in a book.But for those non-Christians who find the same sort of virtues in this movie that I do, it's sequel, The Perfect Race (2019) which features the same coach protagonist translated to a college environment, is also a must view.
Reviewed by carrick55 8 / 10

Clever film: For teachers, runners and christians

The starting premise is a private christian high school running team. It is much deeper that I expected and I found rewatching rewarding. It has multiple narrative lines, is personality driven, has a morality focus, and it finds some useful technical running ideas.The moral dilemas are interesting the personalities are credible and engaging. The production values and acting are Hallmark+ quality. The music is well matched to the story. The plot pacing is nicely developed. The climax is was exciting and satisfying. The polarising issue is the openly christian theme. The examples and scripture is unmissable but appropriate. It is clearly not be to everyone's taste but you do not need to be any kind of runner or christian to understand and enjoy this film.Free on Youtube at the moment. It got some of the recognition it deserved. A good independant film. The (stand alone) sequel 'The Perfect Race' is also very good, similar flavour, perhaps even better though.I recommend both.
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