Priscilla Shirer, who plays the school’s principal Oliva Brooks, had some thoughts: Why is this such an important theme for our culture? What Crosswalk wanted to know, though, was why 2019 was the year to make this film. Remind my people who they are in the church and remind other people where they should find their identity.’ So, I hope that it touches a lot of people,” Alex Kendrick said.
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We weren’t originally going to make a movie about, and we felt very strongly the Lord saying, ‘This is what I want you to focus on. “When we were praying ‘God, what do you want us to make a movie about?’ this is where he prompted us. “You cannot come up with this story without prayer” he states confidently.Īnd pray, the Kendrick brothers did. comments how this movie could not have been conceived by man alone and how God absolutely had a hand in the creative process. We can see how the Lord was paralleling our paths to specifically make this movie.”Ĭhristian comedian Michael Jr. And Thomas Hill is haunted by whether or not he can be defined apart from his sinful past.Ĭo-Producer Stephen Kendrick shared how God shaped the idea for the film: “When we started the process with Overcomer, Alex began to unpack this idea of a cross-country runner who’s dealing with the issue of identity, and at the same time, I’d been studying Ephesians 1 and 2.
Hannah must decide if she will be defined by her difficult home life and what people think about her, or by what she sees in Scripture. Coach Harrison confronts being defined by his career. The film explores this theme from all angles. What they all end up facing together is the question everyone in 2019 needs to answer: “What do you allow to define you?” Through prayer and encouraging words from this unlikely new friend, Coach and his wife Amy ( Shari Rigby) invest in Hannah’s success wholeheartedly, on and off the track, as they prepare for the biggest race of the year. Not only is Hannah the only runner left… she has asthma.Ĭoach Harrison’s life gets even more interesting through a chance encounter with Thomas Hill ( Cameron Arnett), a blind and bed-ridden man with a sticky past. He reluctantly agrees to coach his school's cross-country team instead, only to find out that only one runner has joined the team, Hannah Scott ( Aryn Wright-Thompson).
When the largest factory in his town closes, and people are forced to leave in droves, he can no longer hope to coach an award-winning basketball team, and his sense of self suffers.
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There are even a couple of twists along the way, all focused on the theme of finding our identities in Christ.Ĭoach John Harrison ( Alex Kendrick) finds his identity shaken with a series of unfortunate news. The production values, acting, and storyline are all very well-done and engaging. And unsurprisingly, one can track an upward swing in quality from their first movies until now, and this film is undoubtedly their best yet. Overcomer, the sixth movie the Kendrick Brothers have created together, has the highest production budget of all their films ( War Room, Courageous, Fireproof, Facing the Giants, and Flywheel) at $5 million.
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