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Posted February 12, 2015 Travelers, to article in print edition. DIRECTOR NIKI CARO TAKES THE HELM OF DISNEY’S “McFARLAND, USA”
Niki Caro (Photo: Courtesy Disney) New Zealand native Niki Caro gained critical acclaim as the director of “Whale Rider,” which garnered over 50 international awards and nominations, including a best actress Oscar® nomination for its star. Stepping up to direct Disney’s “McFarland, USA,” Caro speaks to what sparked her interest in the project: “For a lot of reasons ‘McFarland, USA’ is a very appropriate story for me to tell. It had been a long time since I made ‘Whale Rider,’ but in all that time, 13 years, I’ve been looking for a comparable project and a movie that I could make in a similar way, and ‘McFarland, USA’ was it. The story spoke to me because it’s real. What moved me most is the resilience of these kids and their emotional and physical and spiritual endurance, which makes them so perfect for cross-country running.”
“McFarland, USA” was mostly shot in California’s agricultural-rich Central Valley, specifically in the town of McFarland, where the original story took place. Describing McFarland, Caro says, “It doesn’t have a stoplight to my knowledge. It has a McDonald’s, but that would be the extent of the entertainment and the nightlife. It’s a very, very hot place. This is important because it’s a place where it’s thoroughly agricultural; everybody who lives there works in the fields in some capacity. And fieldwork, from what I can see, is about as difficult as it gets. You’re working outside in extraordinary temperatures doing really physical, manual work, picking fruit, oranges, grapes and the like.”
Elaborating, Caro adds, “McFarland is largely populated by Mexican immigrants. These are generations of field workers and they are remarkable human beings. Their focus is on family, community and hard work. All of those things I’m very drawn to and very much admire.”
Offering a brief overview of the story, Caro relates, “The story is about a man named Coach Jim White, a football coach who loses a number of jobs and finds himself in McFarland, California, the very last place he wants to be. He realizes very quickly that the kids in the school are really bad at football. They’re really small for a start and football is just not their strength. But he recognizes that they’re also very, very fast. So, he starts a cross-country team. The high school had never had a cross-country team before he arrived. The story follows Jim and this unlikely running team to the state championships and beyond.”
Caro describes “McFarland, USA” as an underdog story and says, “In the way that underdog stories are, it’s incredibly rewarding watching these kids from this place succeed in every way. Not just succeed for themselves, but influence the guy that’s coaching them as well. They have a profound effect on Jim White and his family, as does the town and the Mexican culture.”
According to Caro, California’s Central Valley is “a huge character in the film because it defines the life of these kids.” Caro feels that she was lucky to have had the opportunity to shoot the movie in California and says, “My commitment and the commitment of the studio to this movie being authentic and specific means that we shot all the critical sequences in McFarland itself and the surrounding fields. It’s an experience to be up there in the summer because the temperatures are so intense. It’s so hot that it bleaches the blue out of the sky, so that informed the way we photographed the film. I think that we really managed to capture not only the magic of the light there but also the grit and the dust and the toughness of that world.”
Niki Caro’s directing style dictates bringing a great deal of attention to authenticity and specificity and those mandates follow through to casting as well. “When I cast a movie like this, I always want to go right to the truth and the truth of this movie is kids who run, who live in McFarland, who also do field work,” informs Caro. “So, we went there. In fact, we went to a lot of similar communities in California about 18 months before we even got into the casting process to identify who these kids were, through group auditions and improvisations.”
The filmmakers also cast within the acting community but did actually wind up casting three young men from the McFarland area who had never acted before—Sergio Avelar, Ramiro Rodriguez and Michael Aguero. In pre-production, the local kids were put through actor training and the young actors had to go through physical training. “They all had a lot to learn from each other,” says Caro. “The group is so tight and seamless that nobody can tell me who are the actors and who are the non-actors. They were intensively prepared and they worked incredibly hard. Going in, I had a huge amount of respect for how hard the boys worked to be in this movie and that gave me a huge amount of confidence.”
Caro readily admits that she likes to work in real communities and with real people. “I like to light them up,” states the director. “There’s something very special about putting on screen people who never saw themselves that way and can’t see how beautiful they are. Not just these boys but also the community in general. All seven of the boys we cast are worthy of important and satisfying careers. They all have something special.”
When it came to casting the role of Coach Jim White, Niki and the other filmmakers had one actor in mind—Kevin Costner. “Obviously he’s a sports guy and has made some of the most iconic sports movies ever,” states Caro. “But then when I met him and I saw the gentle, tender way he dealt with these kids, how he was extremely fatherly to them, and protective of them, I was so impressed. Even more so by the effect the boys had on him because what they bring out in him is real humanity and humility. This has made his performance in this movie very, very special.”
Working with Costner was a positive experience for the director as well. “It was a great experience,” says Caro. “Obviously, he’s incredibly skilled. He’s very smart and very experienced but also extremely collaborative and respectful. It was a great working relationship. I would do it a thousand times over.”
“McFarland, USA” is inspired by a true story and, to Caro, that element elevates the audience experience. “At the end of the movie, it’s not as if you just get some text on screen to describe where the characters are now, you literally see them,” explains the director. “There is no contrivance in the filmmaking because the original runners are still running with the current team. This is Jim’s legacy. The original team members all went to college. They all built amazing lives for themselves. Even Victor, who had a short spell in the State Penitentiary, is back and working in McFarland. I’m very proud to have them in the movie.”
A number of the original runners became teachers in McFarland. One of them, David Diaz, was actually the principal of the school for some time. “The fact they’re all back, not only working in their town and raising their families in that town but actively supporting the cross-country teams of today just speaks volumes about the magic of that community and of those people,” comments Caro.
Summing up what she wants audiences to experience, Caro says, “I hope that audiences will come away from this movie extremely entertained, amused and moved, and maybe with a clearer appreciation for the gigantic contribution that these people make to this country.”
Q&A follows:
Q: How were you introduced to the project?
A: Mark and Gordon approached me and asked me to take a look at this project. For a lot of reasons “McFarland, USA” is a very appropriate story for me to tell. It had been a long time since I made “Whale Rider,” but in all that time, 13 years, I’ve been looking for a comparable project and some story that I could make in a similar way, and “McFarland, USA” was it.
Q: What was it about the story or the script that spoke to you?
A: The story spoke to me because it was real. What moved me most is the resilience of these kids, and their emotional and physical and spiritual endurance, which makes them so perfect for cross-country running.
Q: What makes this story so special?
A: The town of McFarland is unremarkable in every way except for what these kids and this coach have done in terms of cross-country running. What makes them so extraordinary is to have come from that place and to have achieved what they achieved. They have put McFarland on the map.
Q: Where is McFarland? Describe the town.
A: McFarland’s a town in the Central Valley in California. It has about 8,000 people in it. It doesn’t have a stoplight to my knowledge. It has a McDonald’s, but that would be the extent of the entertainment and the nightlife. It’s a very, very hot place. This is important because it’s a place where it’s thoroughly agricultural; everybody who lives there works in the fields in some capacity. And fieldwork is about as difficult as it gets. You’re working outside in extraordinary temperatures doing really physical, manual work, picking fruit, oranges, grapes and the like. These kids are crazy remarkable in that they work, they go to school and they run. It’s amazing.
Q: Tell us about the Mexican culture influences.
A: McFarland is largely populated by Mexican immigrants. These are generations of field workers and they are remarkable human beings. Their focus is on family, community and hard work. All of those things I’m very drawn to and very much admire.”
Q: Tell me the story of the film and Coach White.
A: The story is about a man named Coach Jim White, a football coach who loses a number of jobs and finds himself in McFarland, California, the very last place he wants to be. He realizes very quickly that the kids in the school are really bad at football. They’re small for starters and football is just not their strength. But he recognizes that they’re also very, very fast. So he starts a cross-country team. The high school had never had a cross-country team before he arrived. And, coincidentally, this was the first year that California had the first state cross-country championship. The story follows Jim and this unlikely running team to the state championships and beyond.
Q: What is it like for Jim White to come to McFarland?
A: It’s both a fish out of water story and an underdog story. Jim White is both, certainly, when he arrives in the town of McFarland. It’s fairly ironic that his name is White because they’re the only white family there. The culture shock is immense but the community is very generous to the White family and takes them in. In many ways it’s about the transformation of this man and his family in this place. We see Jim White become a better coach and a better father and a better human being over the course of the story.
Q: What’s at stake for Jim and his family?
A: What’s at stake for Jim is his reputation. He literally is at the end of a very hot and dusty road in McFarland. Also at stake are his family’s wellbeing, his children’s education and their future. The stakes are high.
Q: What’s the catalyst that makes Jim White want to put this team together?
A: The catalyst for Jim is his need to find a role for himself because he gets fired in the first week from his assistant football-coaching job, which pretty much is the final straw in a string of firings. Recognizing that the boys are fast, he creates a position for himself as their coach.
Q: What does he see in these kids that makes him want to create this team?
A: Jim initially sees nothing in these kids but their inability to play football. Until his littlest daughter, Jamie, is sitting with him while the boys run around the track. It’s Jamie who says, “They’re really fast” and that opens his eyes, and he’s a smart guy. He sees opportunity there and he sees a place for himself.
Q: Describe those moments in the film in putting the team together.
A: So Jim sees that the boys are fast and he sees an opportunity for himself in becoming their coach. But, then he has to put the team together. With each of these boys he has to employ a different strategy but he has Johnny at his side, who’s the most enthusiastic of the group, and Johnny is sent off to try and convince the other kids to join. It’s a wonderful sequence in the film that culminates with Thomas beating up a kid in the school cafeteria and Jim’s satisfaction in knowing that now he’s got Thomas. He saves him from suspension but the price is that he has to join the team.
Q: Talk about the character Thomas Valles.
A: Thomas is the most gifted runner in the group. He’s also the most troubled. He’s got a lot going on at home. He’s effectively the man of the house; his father’s a field worker who has to travel often to other states to work in order to support the family. So, Thomas has a lot going on and doesn’t necessarily appreciate Jim in his life. But he comes to value Jim as his coach and his mentor and his friend and being part of the team.
Q: How does Jim White build the trust?
A: Thomas is the most difficult case for Jim. The most unlikely kid to come on board and the hardest to win his trust but it’s when Thomas is at his lowest that Jim is there for him. And what happens on that evening bonds the two of them irrevocably.
Q: Talk about the David Diaz character.
A: David Diaz is the eldest of the three Diaz brothers. He’s the responsible one and the one most likely to keep his brothers in line and keep them on the team.
Q: Talk about the character Damacio Diaz.
A: Damacio is the wise guy. He’s a really gifted runner. But he’s never going to be runner number one because he just doesn’t have that killer instinct.
Q: Talk about the character Danny Diaz.
A: Danny Diaz is the least likely person on the team to be a good runner. He doesn’t have a runner’s build, but he has a lot of enthusiasm and he thinks he can do it. From Jim’s point of view, he needs seven boys and Danny makes up the numbers. If he doesn’t have Danny, he’s pretty sure he’s going to lose Damacio and David. An interesting rule of cross-country scoring is that the only the first five runners score. They are the scores that count. Danny’s scores are never going to count anyway, as runner number seven. He’s literally making up the numbers.
Q: What are the rules in terms of scoring?
A: The rules of cross-country are very simple. It’s a team of seven. The first five runners score and their score is related to when they cross the line. So, if you cross the line first, that scores one. If you cross the line second, that scores two. So, of course, you want the lowest score, as the lowest scoring team will win the race ultimately.
Q: Let’s talk about the Johnny Sameniego character.
A: Johnny is a football player when we meet him. The smallest football player you’ve ever seen but the most enthusiastic. He’s one of those kids who just lights up the room. He is got a high-wattage smile and a high-wattage energy and he is very useful to Jim in getting the team together.
Q: Let’s talk about the Jose Cardenas character.
A: Jose is the quietest of the boys. He’s a very gifted writer. In fact, the real Jose became a writer for the Los Angeles Times. He’s one of these really super-quiet kids whose feelings are very deep. In the final race, it’s the way Jose attacks the race that makes the race incredibly dramatic.
Q: Talk about the Victor Puentes character.
A: Victor is the nephew of a guy named Javi. Victor’s father is in prison; his Uncle Javi has just gotten out and Victor lives with him. He lives in an environment where there are a lot of guys. They’re Lowriders, so it’s very much a car culture where Victor comes from. Victor is a very gifted runner but it’s tough to keep him on the rails.
Q: Can you describe the lowrider culture?
A: Lowriding culture is vastly different to how it’s generally portrayed on screen. What the movie business has done to lowriding is use it as shorthand for gangster, when in fact it’s almost the complete opposite. In the world of lowriding, it’s all about family; it’s all about community and these vehicles, how beautiful they are and the work that you do on them and the way you show them off. There’s a great deal of pride in lowriding culture that’s indicative of the pride in Mexican culture generally.
Q: Why was it important for you to have Kevin Costner on this film?
A: Kevin Costner’s obviously a sports guy and has made some of the most iconic sports movies ever. But then when I met him and I saw the gentle, tender way he dealt with these kids, how he was extremely fatherly to them, and protective of them, I was so impressed. Even more so by the effect the boys had on him because what they bring out in him is real humanity and humility. This has made his performance in this movie very, very special.
Q: What was it like for you to work with Kevin Costner?
A: It was great working with Kevin Costner. Obviously, he’s incredibly skilled. He’s very smart and very experienced but also extremely collaborative and respectful. We had a great working relationship. I would do it a thousand times over.
Q: What were some of the conversations you had with Kevin Costner about how you wanted to approach Jim White?
A: I’m very instinctive and so is Kevin. We had very similar ideas about the way to approach Jim and pretty much everything Kevin was doing instinctively, I was very much on board with. In the rare event that we weren’t in concert, we discussed it.
Q: Let’s talk about the casting process in general.
A: The way I work is to bring a great deal of attention to authenticity and specificity. So, when I cast a movie like this, I always want to go right to the truth and the truth of this movie is kids who run, who live in McFarland, who also do field work. So, we went there. In fact, we went to a lot of similar communities in California about 18 months before we even got into the casting process to identify who these kids were, through group auditions and little improvisations.
There was one kid that I couldn’t get out of my mind, Michael Aguero, who plays Damacio Diaz. The film got delayed, so 18 months later we came back, and, of course, he was still in McFarland. We were also casting within the acting community but what’s amazing about the seven of them is that three of them are from McFarland and had never acted before. So, it was fantastic in pre-production to put the real kids through acting training and put the acting kids through physical training.
They all had a lot to learn from each other. The group is so tight and seamless that nobody can tell me who are the actors and who are the non-actors. They were intensively prepared and they worked incredibly hard. I had a huge amount of respect for that going in and a huge amount of confidence.
Q: Did you enjoy working with the boys you cast as the runners??
A:
As a filmmaker, I love to work in real communities and real
people. I like to light them up. There’s something special about
putting on screen people who never saw themselves that way and don’t
necessarily see how beautiful they are. Not just the
Q: Tell me about some of their backgrounds. Let’s talk about Carlos Pratts.
A: Carlos Pratts is the most experienced of all the actors and the least experienced of all the runners. In fact, he was a football star in high school. He’s a big kid but runners need to be very, very lean. I desperately wanted to cast him but everybody was telling me that he didn’t look like a runner. So I said, “Well, we’ll have to make him look like a runner.” I talked to Carlos and asked him if he was prepared to go the distance physically to completely transform his body. Of course, he’s an actor, so he said yes. I bow down to Carlos’ ambition and professionalism because that young man was transforming in front of my eyes. In fact, I take full credit for his cheekbones. I own those.
Q: What about Rafael Martinez as David Diaz?
A: Rafael Martinez has the most amazing spirit. His spirit just shines. He’s peaceful and a very subtle actor, really real. But the feeling you get from him is unlike anybody else in the mix. It’s his sprit; it’s strong.
Q: What about Ramiro Rodriguez who plays Danny Diaz??
A: Ramiro Rodriguez, Danny Diaz, was working at the Pizza Hut, where he had two shifts a week. We went down to the wire on casting Danny Diaz because it’s really hard to find a husky kid who can run. We had initially seen his cousin George, whom I’d met up there in McFarland, and I really liked him. He’s a feisty kid and I thought maybe we could do to George what we’d done to Carlos Pratts. George was too skinny, so we would need to bulk him up. Really fast. But we were clutching at straws. So they bring George down and he brings along his cousin, and his cousin is Ramiro. It’s a classic casting story. Everybody looks at each other and says, “That’s him.” So they call me and say, “You have to look at the cousin.” I was three hours away in McFarland, so I say, “Keep the cousin. Don’t let the cousin off the premises until I get back.” So they put Ramiro in a hotel and we talked him into doing some rehearsal and some auditioning. As everybody suspected, he was really good. But he had to be talked into doing it because he didn’t want to lose his two shifts at the Pizza Hut. That speaks a lot about how important it is to have a job in places like McFarland.
Q: What about Hector Duran as Johnny Sameniego?
A: Hector’s the youngest of all of the boys. I never knew how young he actually was because he’s super smart and totally professional. He nailed it from his original audition. I’m on the phone to the studio saying, “You are crazy if you do not let me cast Hector Duran,” because he was exactly the Johnny that I had envisioned. I’d envisioned a kid whose smile split his face in half. That was Hector.
Q: Tell us about Johnny Ortiz who plays Jose Cardenas.
A: Johnny Ortiz really impressed me in his audition in that he was really raw. He was not the most experienced actor I saw but his quality is amazing. In the real story, Jose Cardenas was living alone in a condemned house for a very long time. His mother had died and his father had gone back to Mexico. Jose wanted to remain in school, and he wanted to stay running. Johnny Ortiz really felt very close to that sort of kid. He’s a survivor.
Q: How about Sergio Avelar who plays Victor?
A: Sergio Avelar, from McFarland, is a former state champion runner. They lost the state championship when he ran for McFarland and that still weighs heavily on him, I think. But to watch him run is poetry. It’s like watching a leopard run across the savannah. He seems almost not human. He plays arguably the toughest of the kids and the worldliest in many ways but what makes that special is his gentleness. He’s a beautiful kid; he’s the kid you want to save, out of all of them.
Q: Tell me about bringing Maria Bello into the mix?
A: I’ve been a longtime fan of Maria Bello, so it was a big thrill to have her in this movie and work with her. She is in many ways similar to the real Cheryl White; she has the same steel and the same loving toughness. She shoots straight and is fiercely committed to the family and to the town.
Q: Tell me about the real Jim and Cheryl White.
A: The Whites are amazing people. Jim White, for a start, looks like Clint Eastwood. He’s done such a phenomenal thing for this town. He has transformed it. He’s given it pride. But that’s not a one-way relationship; it comes right back. The town accepted the Whites and brought them into the community and made them family. The runners from 1987 through to the runners of today are like children to the Whites; they are literally like family.
Q: Why did the community embrace and accept them?
A: I think the community embraced them because they are really good people. Both of them deeply cared about the kids. Not just about whether they’re showing up for practice or whether they’re winning races. They care holistically all the way around. Jim and Cheryl are invested in these kids’ lives.
Q: Tell me about the runners and the people who are being portrayed and where they are now.
A: The amazing thing about this story is that it’s true. At the end of the movie, it’s not as if you get some text on screen to describe where the characters are now, you literally see them. There is no contrivance in the filmmaking because the original runners are still running with the current team. This is Jim’s legacy. The original team members all went to college. They all built amazing lives for themselves; even Victor, who had a short spell in the State Penitentiary, is back and working in McFarland. I’m proud to have them in the movie.
Q: What are they doing now?
A: A number of the original runners became teachers in McFarland, in the very high school. One of them, David Diaz, was actually the principal of that school for some time. The fact they’re all back working in their town and raising their families and actively supporting the cross-country teams of today speaks volumes about the magic of that community and of those people.
Q: Describe the landscape that you were looking for the film.
A: California’s Central Valley is a huge character in the film because it defines the life of these kids. My commitment and the commitment of the studio to this movie being authentic and being specific means that we shot all the critical sequences in McFarland itself and the surrounding fields. It’s an experience to be up there in the summer. The temperatures are so intense. It’s so hot that it bleaches the blue out of the sky, so that informed the way we photographed the film. Of course, it had to look and feel exactly like life does there.
The film is beautiful. Adam Arkapaw, our cinematographer, did an incredible job. But its beauty never sacrifices its realness and I think that we really managed to capture not only the magic of the light there but also the grit and the dust and the toughness of that world.
Q: What are some of your favorite locations?
A: There are little scenes in the movie where you see field workers go to work in the pre-dawn and they’re beautiful shots. But they’re completely real. We didn’t use any lights; there’s nothing but a camera, photographing what it looks like for these people to go to work in the morning. They are some of the nicest images for me. My favorite location is outside of the market in McFarland. It’s a real place on the East side of town. I love everything that’s shot there.
In terms of locations, cross-country running is unique because it’s seldom run on the same course and the courses can be spectacular. So, it’s not like running around a track. What cross-country runners have to do is contend with terrain and hills. As a filmmaker, it’s fantastic to be able to choose locations that are really cinematic and that are truthful to cross-country running.
Q: Tell me about the challenges you had to contend to when putting the races together.
A: I was fortunate to be making this film with Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray who have an extensive track record in making sports cinema. They work with a sports coordinator called Coach Ellis who would design the races based on what needed to happen dramatically. He and his team would prepare the boys, so my team could just go in and shoot it. Coach Ellis prepped the boys for their physical performances and directing their running.
It was fun. As a director you never really work in tandem with anybody else in quite that way. It was such a load off me to know that that was being taken care of so impeccably.
When you’ve got a hundred plus runners running a course for the most important race of the movie, that’s shot in two locations, on several days with four cameras, you want to know that everybody’s doing their job really well and that all of those pieces are going to come together to make a beautiful jigsaw, not one that’s just all jumbled up that you’ve got to unwind in the editing room. Having Coach Ellis design the races was invaluable to me.
Q: Let’s talk about Morgan Saylor and Elsie Fisher, who play the Coach’s daughters.
A: I was a fan of Morgan from “Homeland.” She did her own audition tape and she directs herself really well. She did such a good job that it was just a slam-dunk as far as I was concerned. Little Elsie was so charming when she came to audition. I have young children and we loved “Despicable Me,” and of course Elsie is the voice of Agnes. She’s like a rock star in our house. So, working with Elsie was a real thrill. I love her. She’s not particularly experienced in live-action movie making and it makes her very real. I have children the same age and really appreciate Elsie’s looseness. If anybody’s watching the film carefully, Elsie comes onto every scene doing something mad. She will be like a pony or something. It’s so idiosyncratic and it’s so charming. She’s just a real kid; she’s not an “actor” kid.
Q: Tell us about the relationship between Julie White and her father, Jim.
A: Julie’s relationship with her father is pretty uneasy. She’s coming up on 15 years old and she’s being uprooted again from a life she is comfortable with. She’s being taken out of school; she’s moved to a place that she perceives as very hostile and, and if all of that wasn’t enough, her father becomes very distracted with building and training his new team. He manages to forget her birthday and show up late without a cake, which is unforgivable, by the way. One of the most beautiful moments of the movie is how he makes amends for that. The party he throws her with the help of the community is one of the most emotional and satisfying moments of the film.
Q: How would you describe the film in general?
A: I would certainly describe the film as an underdog story and in the way that underdog stories are, it’s incredibly rewarding watching these kids from this place succeed in every way. Not just succeed for themselves, but influence the guy that’s coaching them as well. They have a profound effect on Jim White and his family, as does the town and the Mexican culture.
Q: What would you hope the audiences take away from this film?
A: I hope that audiences will come away from this movie extremely entertained, amused and moved, and maybe with a clearer appreciation for the gigantic contribution that people like these make to this country.
Q: What is it like working with producers Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray?
A: Mark and Gordon have been incredibly supportive They cared very deeply about the story and were very much on board with the way that I chose to tell it, which is rather unlike the movies that they’ve made before. I’m very grateful to them for supporting me in bringing through a lot of things that aren’t traditionally associated with sports movies.
ABOUT THE MOVIE: Based on the 1987 true story, “McFarland, USA” follows novice runners from McFarland, an economically challenged town in California’s farm-rich Central Valley, as they give their all to build a cross-country team under the direction of Coach Jim White (Kevin Costner), a newcomer to their predominantly Latino high school. Coach White and the McFarland students have a lot to learn about each other but when White starts to realize the boys’ exceptional running ability, things begin to change. Soon something beyond their physical gifts becomes apparent—the power of family relationships, their unwavering commitment to one another and their incredible work ethic. With grit and determination, the unlikely band of runners eventually overcomes the odds to forge not only a championship cross-country team but an enduring legacy as well. Along the way, Coach White realizes that his family finally found a place to call home and both he and his team achieve their own kind of American dream. Disney’s “McFarland, USA” stars Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Morgan Saylor, Martha Higareda, Michael Aguero, Sergio Avelar, Hector Duran, Rafael Martinez, Johnny Ortiz, Carlos Pratts, Ramiro Rodriguez, Danny Mora, Valente Rodriguez, Vanessa Martinez, Chris Ellis and Diana Maria Riva, and is directed by Niki Caro with screenplay by Christopher Cleveland & Bettina Gilois and Grant Thompson, and story by Cleveland & Gilois. Gordon Gray and Mark Ciardi are
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