The true story of an orphanage entering into a fishing tournament makes for a conventional yet effective carbon copy of the
Disney sports movie formula
Despite the broad crowd-alluring appeal of many of Blue Miracle’s ingredients (a beautiful warm location, sweeping cinematography of a crisp blue ocean, a struggling orphanage packed with cute, quippy kids, an intense competition, Dennis Quaid in a vest), there’s something pretty brave about trying to copy the Disney sports movie formula but replacing
baseball or ice hockey with … fishing.
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