
            The opening scene takes us into the gym of Brookshire Christian School as the boys basketball team narrowly loses their hard-fought championship game in the last few seconds. After the game, the coach John Harrison consoles his son Ethan who missed the final shot of the game and his team telling them that next year they are posed to take the state championship as all their best players will be returning while their opponents' will have graduated.In the next scene, Coach Harrison and the other teachers at the school all learn through a television news broadcast that the manufacturing plant, the largest employer in their town of Franklin, is moving to another city. Another coach explains that his best players' families all work at the plant, but he assures Coach Harrison that basketball should be okay as he will still have his best players returning.Cut to a scene of high school boys playing basketball in the park. A young high school girl, Hannah Scott, walks by and sees one of the boys' expensive headphones lying on the bench by where they are playing. When the boy realizes they are gone and looks around, he sees Hannah. She runs through the woods with all the teenage boys chasing her. When they reach an apartment complex, they lose sight of her and assume she ran inside. Actually, she ducked behind some rocks and tried to hide her heavy breathing from the boys to keep from being discovered. We learn she has asthma when she pulls out her inhaler. After the boys give up the chase and leave, she continues on to her grandmother's house. There, her grandmother holds out an iPod and asks Hannah where it came from, insinuating she stole it and tells her to take it back saying she already bought her one. After her grandmother leaves for work, Hannah takes the stolen headphones and puts them in a box hidden in her room, presumably filled with more stolen objects, including another set of headphones.In her office, Principal Olivia Brooks (Priscilla Shirer) tells Coach Harrison that the school is losing several teachers and coaches, and she needs him to coach cross country as she doesn't want the school to lose another program. He protests as he doesn't like cross country or even think that it's a real sport, but he doesn't have much of a choice. When he goes to tryouts, however, only Hannah shows up to join. She has a form signed by her grandmother, indicating she was born on Valentine's Day, and she has asthma. When the coach protests to the principal, she tells him even one runner matters.At the first practice, Hannah runs a respectable, but not impressive time. Back at the Harrison home, he complains to his wife, Amy, another teacher at the school, and tries to recruit his basketball-playing son Ethan to run cross country as well. Ethan says he will only if his dad will run with him to train, so Harrison drops that idea. A phone call from their pastor reminds Amy she promised that Coach Harrison would help the pastor with hospital visitation that night.At the hospital, Coach Harrison accidentally enters the room of Thomas Hill (Cameron Arnett), a blind man suffering from diabetes complications and a former cross country runner. Hill says he doesn't often have visitors and invites Harrison to come back.Things go downhill for Harrison. He continues to lose basketball players and realizes he won't have a team at all, that his son will have no opportunity to get a college scholarship, and that all the teachers are getting a 10% pay cut. His wife tries to encourage him with mixed results. After Hannah's unimpressive performance at their first meet, Harrison returns to visit Hill and ask for advice on how to coach her. Along with giving suggestions on cross country coaching, Hill challenges Harrison to consider what his true identity is. If he's not a coach or a teacher or a husband or a father, then who is he? He answers that he's a Christian, and Hill asks him if his faith is so important why didn't he list it earlier.Hill shares how he had to lose his own eyesight before he could clearly see what was important-how he hurt so many people and was selfish. Harrison learns that Hill had a girlfriend, got her pregnant, got her on meth, abandoned his baby girl after she died. The baby was born on Valentine's Day 15 year ago and now lives with relatives. Harrison puts the pieces together and realizes his daughter is Hannah.Conflicted about what to do, as Hannah's grandmother has told her both of her parents are dead, Harrison asks Principal Brooks about the situation. We learn Brooks was a friend of Hannah's mother and has been the one paying for Hannah's tuition. She says she can't counsel the coach to go around the grandmother, but she also is sure that if they don't, Hannah will never know her father. So Amy and John ask Hill first if he would like to see Hannah, and then they ask Hannah. In their first meeting at the hospital, Hannah can only stay a few moments before she has to leave from all the emotion stirred up. She later returns and asks him to tell her what happened. Hill tells the story and says he knows he doesn't deserve it but hopes she can someday forgive him. Hannah says, "It's hard."Hannah and Principal Brooks talk about all Hannah's feelings about her father-about feeling unloved, a mistake, unwanted, abandoned. Principal Brooks tells Hannah that she has another father, a perfect Father who has always wanted her and loved her and cares for her. They pray together, and Hannah asks Jesus Christ to be part of her life. Principal Brooks challenges Hannah to read the first two chapters of the book of Ephesians in the Bible and to write down all the things it says about her.She writes down things like: "I am blessed. I am chosen. I am forgiven. I am redeemed. I am loved."Hannah dramatically declares all of these things in front of Coach Harrison, and the drama class at school then returns all the things she had been stealing. She goes to her father's hospital room and finds it empty. Grateful to find he was only moved to ICU after a possible heart attack, Hannah informs him she has two things to tell him. First, she has given her life to Christ and second, if Jesus can forgive her for all the things that she has done, then she can forgive him. Of course, he is thrilled.When Hannah returns home, she finds her grandmother has come home early from work and is livid when Hannah tells her she was visiting her father. She feels betrayed. She tells Hannah that she was trying to protect her by keeping her away from him. Her grandmother goes to the Harrisons' home and threatens them and the school with legal action if they ever help her see him again. Then she goes to Hill's hospital room and tells him to let her go, that he only brings hurt to everyone.All of them pray. The Harrisons pray together for wisdom on what to do. Hill prays that God wouldn't leave him useless after just getting back his daughter. Hannah's grandmother prays that God would help her to forgive all of the hurt of losing her daughter, of working so hard all these years to take care of Hannah. She says only God can do it.At a meeting of the regional cross country coaches before the state championship, a vote is taken on whether or not to allow runners to use earbuds. At first, opposed, Harrison quickly changes his mind and lobbies the other coaches to vote in favor as well.At the state championship, Coach Harrison gives Hannah an earbud and a player telling him to push the play button when the race starts. She does, and she hears the voice of her father coaching her through every step of the race. He tells her how much he loves her, how proud he is of her, how they are going to do this together. He coaches her to find her pace, to dig into the hills, to pass girl after girl. With the encouragement and expert coaching of her father, Hannah runs her best race ever and literally falls over the finish line, having given her everything to overtake the former state champion in the last stretch. As paramedics bring oxygen for Hannah, everyone waits for the final results, which were too close to call without review. When they determine Hannah won by leaning forward an inch more; her classmates hoist her on their shoulders and everyone cheers. Hannah's grandmother stayed to watch her race even though it meant she was late for work. After her congratulations, Hannah tells her she wants to see her dad, and her grandmother nods and tells the Harrisons to bring her home after.At the hospital, Hannah puts the medal around her father's neck. He is thrilled that she medaled. Then Coach Harrison tells him it's not just any medal; she won the state championship. Hannah wraps her arms around him, puts her head on his chest, and says, "I had a really good coach."Hill's casket at the cemetery is surrounded by Hannah, her grandmother, the Harrisons, Principal Brooks, and others. The pastor says Hill's story was one of redemption. Hannah tells Coach Harrison that she "had the best dad in the world for six weeks."The last scenes are six years later. We see Hannah sharing her story with others in a group, scenes of her running cross country in college, and her opening up a box tied with a ribbon (one of a whole set that Coach Harrison apparently has in a drawer that he mails on her birthday) and inserting a flash drive into her player and running through the city while listening to a recording made by her father for her saying, "This is your 21st birthday, Hannah. This is the prayer I have prayed for you for this year..."
    

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The Big Fix

Discarded Things


            A year after the failed launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger, a seasoned engineer, Adam, who worked on a team in Utah designing the O-Rings - the rubber seals blamed for the shuttle's deadly explosion - meets with a law firm to discuss securing representation for a billion dollar civil suit against his former company. The firm's managing partner, Finch Richards, interviews Adam to determine if Adam is a victim or the cause of the problem. As Richards questions Adam about his role in the January 1986 disaster, Adam begins to see Richards as one more person who suspects he's responsible for the explosion and the subsequent deaths of 7 astronauts.The previous legal counsel for Adam came through his company just two weeks after the explosion, when Adam identified his main concern had been the temperature forecasted for launch time in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Corporate attorney Larry Arnold advised Adam and others of the need to shape a consistent story as a team to protect everyone involved with the Solid Rocket Booster fabrication who would be facing harsh questions, criticism, and even accusations in the aftermath of the disaster. The first round would soon come from a newly-formed Presidential commission, announced by President Ronald Reagan, with the purpose of investigating the circumstances related to the explosion, determining a probable cause, and recommending solutions to avoid a repeat of the tragedy.On the eve of the launch, Adam's growing concern about the impact of cold temperatures - the coldest launch in NASA history - drives him to demand it be cancelled. He must first convince his colleagues at the contracting company of why a catastrophic failure is inevitable, but his reputation as hot-headed and antagonistic doesn't help him win support. Despite his best efforts to persuade them, he faces heavy opposition from his colleagues in Utah as the team is given a mere 45 minutes to assemble evidence to support recommending a delay of the launch, even with the knowledge it could lead to NASA severing all ties with the contractor and putting thousands of people out of work.13 hours before launch, a three-way conference call begins between the rocket contracting company in Utah, Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida. Adam explains to everyone on the call how the cold temperature inevitably will have a negative impact on the O-Rings, and could lead to a breach of the primary seal followed by a failure of the second seal. Contradictory comments made by one of his colleagues weaken his argument, and the parties listening in Florida and Alabama interpret the review of the problem by Adam and his colleagues to be illogical and speculative, and they consider it inconclusive.Recognizing NASA would be unable to launch the shuttle the following day without the contractors' recommendation, the contracting company in Utah must come up with a final answer during the call. Adam remains the "voice of reason" in the room and continues to argue against the launch and discovers the chief opposition to his argument to cancel the launch comes from his superiors, the company's management team, whose priority at the moment is not making a decision to save human lives but one to save the company's lucrative NASA contract and thousands of jobs.
    

The Challenger Disaster


            A man troubled by persistent thefts of copper from his property that he was to use in constructing several houses, stops a van with three men that turns up there. When they refuse to get out of the vehicle, he fires his shotgun as a warning and then accidentally kills one of them when it goes off when he prods him in the back with it. His mother, who prayed for him to be found innocent, sees this outcome as divine intervention, in this highly distasteful Christian propaganda piece. It addresses neither the issue of the use of deadly force by a professed Christian, the issue of restitution to the family for the accidental killing of a breadwinner, the impact of this death on the local community and most importantly, the applicability of the stand your ground doctrine and its interpretation which seems to imply that fear or one's life provides justification to use a firearm against an unarmed individual who does not pose a demonstrable threat. Another aspect of the movie that I strongly disliked was the emphasis on the mother and not the torment of her son, who clearly experienced profound remorse as there is no doubt that he did not intend to kill anyone. The DA was portrayed as an unscrupulous villain who probably saw a conviction as being beneficial to her career. The audience has no way of knowing how much of what was portrayed in the movie was accurate, including the dialogue that was used in the courtroom scenes. Finally, I am puzzled by the constant unsubtle emphasis on faith and how this is to be interpreted. Did the mother really believe that her faith in G-d would protect her and her family from all harm? History teaches us otherwise. It never seemed to cross her mind that the non-guilty verdict was a foregone conclusion, since invoking stand your ground as a defense seems to work in many cases. Here, I note with interest that "intense fear for one's life" seems to be the excuse given by many police officers who shoot dead unarmed citizens and even companion animals without compunction. Nobody seems to address the fact that the level of gun ownership in the USA is a factor in its murder rate which is several times higher than than that of other industrial countries.
    

Stand Your Ground


            A drag racer's life is turned upside down after a near fatal car crash, leaving him semi paraplegic. Forced to face his new circumstance, he struggles to walk, to trust, to love, and ultimately, race again
    

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