Apex Mountain
Disney's sappy sports-movie formula; the actor who plays Blue; the actor who plays Racist Ray; Kip Pardue; Hayden Panettiere
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- This might be the height of sappy Disney sports movies, the go-to one people mention first, bigger and better than Miracle; Disney figured out the formula here and kept doing it with The Rookie and Miracle, with Mighty Ducks the other competitor and Angels in the Outfield the sappy comparison; Denzel lowering his guard and putting his daughter over his shoulder brings tears.
- A soft spot for McFarlane USA (as transcribed), a Kevin Costner white-savior movie with Mexicans in a sports movie, is called justifiable; it was a tweener between theatrical sports movies and streaming, and Costner's Black and White came out the same year, which, with Draft Day where he saved the Browns, cannibalized it.
- Everybody else went on to do something better except Blue, so it is Blue's Apex Mountain; Apex is defined as the height of a career, when they have the most juice.
- It is probably Racist Ray's high spot and low spot, Kit Pardue's (as transcribed) too, and Panettiere's best role even if some would say Heroes.