Overcomer (2019) on Netflix
The town's manufacturing plant moves away, and basketball coach John Harrison loses his team. Asked to coach cross country, he gets one runner, asthmatic Hannah Scott.
- Netflix3.9/5
- IMDb6.7/106,788 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes56%
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Plot summary
John Harrison coaches basketball at Brookshire Christian School, where his son Ethan plays and his wife Amy teaches. When the town's manufacturing plant moves away, families follow the jobs, and John's players and colleagues leave. Principal Olivia Brooks asks him to keep the cross country program alive, and he protests, saying he does not like cross country or consider it a real sport. Only one student comes to tryouts: Hannah Scott, an asthmatic girl who lives with Barbara Scott, her grandmother, and who has been taking things that belong to other students. Hospital visits for his pastor bring John to the room of Thomas Hill, a blind former cross country runner who invites him to return.
Cast
- Aryn Wright-Thompsonas Hannah Scott
- Denise Armstrongas Barbara Scott
- Jack Sterneras Ethan Harrison
- Caleb Kendrickas Will Harrison
- Joshua Kendrickas Jeff Baker / Basketball Player / Referee
- Chuck Hastyas Knight's Coach
- Phil Scogginsas TV Anchor
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Overcomer (2019)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Lauren Daigle's song "You Say" appears on the Overcomer soundtrack and set a record by holding the No. 1 spot for 62 weeks; it also crossed over and reached No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary charts.
- Working with a $5 million budget, $2 million more than War Room, the Kendricks shot Overcomer with the same camera equipment used on The Avengers and filmed the indoor scenes on sets built by the crew, which they had never done before.
- Overcomer earned director Alex Kendrick a rare CinemaScore grade of "A+", making him only the second director, after Rob Reiner, to have three different films earn that score.
- Director Alex Kendrick said 50 people in one theater accepted Christ after seeing Overcomer, describing it as "one of many, many stories" of people affected by the film.
