The Long Game
9.1
2023
1 hr 50 min
Drama
, Family
In a segregated Texas, five Mexican-American teenage caddies were prohibited from playing at the country club where they worked. Against all odds, they formed their own team, built a one-hole course in the fields, and won the 1957 Texas State championship. Based on a true story.
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- Cast：
- Jay Hernandez , Dennis Quaid , Cheech Marin , Julian Works , Jaina Lee Ortiz , Brett Cullen , Oscar Nunez
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everything you have heard about this movie is true.
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Absolutely amazing
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The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity
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It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
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