I don’t know about you, but this hard February has left me plenty surly. Cold, snow, worse cold, more snow, wind-chills that defy credulity and snow banks around the driveway that are challenge shoveling shoulders.
So here comes Disney’s McFarland, USA, the true story of a high school coach who moves from Boise, Idaho, to California after getting bounced from yet another job, disappointed wife and two daughters in tow.
My dear wife Karen and I drove to a late Saturday matinee as the snow fell. We’d seen the trailers featuring Kevin Costner as coach Jim White, and the scenes directed by Niki Caro and written by Christopher Cleveland looked interesting, beautifully shot and warm. Quite warm. It worked. A half-filled theater settled in to watch a movie ostensibly about cross-country runners.
