The Miracle Season is a 2018 American biographical sports drama film directed by Sean McNamara[3] and starring Erin Moriarty, Helen Hunt, William Hurt, and Danika Yarosh.
During a party at her house, Line sneaks off to visit her mother Ellyn who is being treated for cancer in hospital.
City takes the lead early, but West ties the score and forces the fifth and final set, which the Trojans win.
During the closing credits, images, videos, and footage show the real life Caroline Found and her family, Kelley Fliehler, Kathy Bresnahan, and the Iowa West High volleyball team.
Scott Sanders would replace Bresnahan as the West High coach, while Kelley Fliehler went on to study microbiology at Iowa State University.
Alexis Jonker, Katelyn Devaney, and Rowyn Neufeld, also from Trinity Western University portray other volleyball players from rival schools West High faces.
The film's director, Sean McNamara, makes a cameo as a Caroline Found fan, while Helen Hunt's real-life daughter, Makena Lei Gordon Carnahan, portrays a high schooler named Ruby.
[8] The Miracle Season premiered at the Englert Theatre in Iowa City, where the film is set, on March 18, 2018.
In the United States and Canada, The Miracle Season was released alongside A Quiet Place, Chappaquiddick and Blockers, and as projected to gross around $3 million from 1,707 theaters in its opening weekend.
The website's critical consensus reads, "The Miracle Season has a worthy real-life story to tell, but one-dimensional characters and aggressively maudlin storytelling undercut any emotional uplift.