[6] John Harrison (Alex Kendrick) is a basketball coach at a high school and married to Amy (Shari Rigby).

Nevertheless, John agrees to be the running coach for Hannah Scott (Aryn Wright-Thompson), who is asthmatic.

Hannah lives with her grandmother, Barbara Scott (Denise Armstrong), who has been telling her all her life that both her parents are dead.

One day, on his hospital visits to help the pastor, John accidentally enters the room of Thomas Hill (Cameron Arnett).

John also later finds out that the principal was Hannah's mother's friend and has been paying her tuition fees.

Through the process she discovers herself and also strengthens her Christian faith and her belief in Jesus Christ as her Heavenly father.

On the day of the State Championship race, John gives Hannah ear buds and a player.

Then Hannah puts a flash drive in the player and runs through the city while listening to the recording from her father which begins with "It's your 21st birthday."

The idea that resulted in Overcomer came to Alex Kendrick in 2011 while he was visiting cross-country events for children: I saw a lot of dads coaching their kids, speaking into them, affirming them .

"[7] Several actors appearing in earlier films by the Kendrick Brothers were cast for roles in Overcomer, including Priscilla Shirer and Ben Davies.

Paul Mills, who wrote the score for War Room, also returned to compose for Overcomer.

[20] Prior to its release, Fandango reported that the film's advance ticket sales were surpassing those of Breakthrough, which debuted to $11.3 million in March 2019.

[22] It went on to slightly over-perform, debuting to $8.1 million over the weekend; as with many faith-based films, it played best in Mid-West and Southern states.

[26] On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 17 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike".

[27] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a rare average grade of "A+" on an A+ to F scale.

[28] Kimber Myers of The Los Angeles Times gave the film a mixed review, saying the script "focuses more on tugging at the heartstrings instead of developing characters," but praising its "emotionally effective conclusion that might persuade even the cynics to its cause.

"[29] Carlos Aguilar of TheWrap wrote "Sports-Centric Faith-Based Drama Preaches, Repetitively, to the Choir," saying that "The writing, the acting, even the lighting fails to turn the thudding messaging into something resembling cinematic entertainment.