It stars Carla Gugino in the lead role of Cathy Rush, a Hall of Fame women's basketball coach.

In 1971, Cathy Rush, a woman ahead of her time, takes a job as the head women's basketball coach at Immaculata College.

Seven members of the 1972 Immaculata championship team appear as nuns in a church scene early in the film,[3] sitting together in a pew, passing a note from the Rush character to a student.

[5] Chambers worked out a deal with Freestyle Releasing, and the movie opened four years after completing the filming.

The site's consensus reads, "Its heart is obviously in the right place, but The Mighty Macs is too blandly formulaic to transcend the genre's many clichés.