Here's an interesting story of the new film The Mighty Macs; it covers the prime of a small Catholic college, Immaculata, which became national woman's basketball champs in the early 70s. In the pre-Title IX era, a lot of small schools became woman's basketball powers, (Delta State comes to mind as another example) since few places were taking it seriously.
This film has been on my radar for a while; since Eileen is a big Bones fan, she's been following it due to David Boreanaz planing the coach's husband. That creates an interesting symmetry, since his Bones co-star Emily Deschanel played coach Don Haskins' wife in Glory Road, covering the story of Haskins' all-black UTEP (ne Texas Western) starting five beating an all-white UK team in the 1966 title game.
The interesting thing is that the film comes in at G. Not PG, G. When's the last mainstream adult movie that came it at G, other than the Christian-crossover features flowing from the Facing the Giants/Courageous crew?
The movie was first shown in 2009 at Indianapolis's Heartland Film Festival but took some time to land a national distributor. Disney was interested but wanted to add a few mild swears to bump it from a G to a PG rating. Writer-director Tim Chambers said heck no, so had to find a different distributor.
That says a lot for the modern film industry, which Disney is part of. They missed out on having a lot of neat ESPN tie-ins in order to not look too prissy.
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