Movie Review: Overcomer
Overcomer is a feel-good, faith-based movie that challenges you to think about your true identity. In the aptly named Christian film by the Kendrick brothers (makers of War Room and Fireproof ), every character has something to overcome: health, job/financial stress, unforgiveness, or past mistakes and regrets. The biggest issue to overcome is answering, “Who am I?” Small-town basketball coach, John Harrison, loses his team after a major plant shut down causes many families to leave. He is asked to coach a single-runner cross-country team consisting of an asthmatic girl, fifteen-year-old Hannah Scott. She is a quiet-demeanored runner living alone with her grandmother. Alex Kendrick (Harrison) basically plays the same character he played in Facing the Giants , a 2006 Kendrick Brothers film. Thankfully his acting has significantly improved since then. Coach Harrison accidentally meets the other main character, Thomas Hill during volunteer ...