WHAT IT S ABOUT:
To save their cash-strapped orphanage, a guardian and his kids partner with a washed-up boat captain for a chance to win a lucrative fishing competition.
WHAT WE THOUGHT:
I am a sucker for feel-good films based on a true story, and writer/director Julio Quintana s
Blue Miracle takes
a true story as its basis and delivers on all the fascinations of good versus evil and every moral point in-between.
Former street child Omar (Jimmy Gonzales) runs Casa Hogar, an orphanage for local boys in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Funds are low, and the bank is ready to collect, so Papá Omar, as he is affectionately known, must come up with a plan to save their shelter. Enter Dennis Quaid as gruff and arrogant Wade, who has won the Bisbee fishing tournament twice. Himself in a financially precarious position, Wade accepts to take Omar and some of his boys as crew for the organiser to waive his entry fee. With the two adults and the four selected young men including Anthony Gonz
Dennis Quaid helps tell an almost unbelievable true story in the Netflix movie Blue Miracle.
The 67-year-old actor plays Captain Wade Malloy, who along with a group of orphaned Mexican boys and their guardian Omar (Jimmy Gonzales), enter into the world s biggest fishing tournament to save their orphanage. I really like playing real people… to tell you the truth even more [than fictional], Quaid told Fox News while promoting the film. [When] I read books, I d rather read fact [over] fiction and this story… it s the story of a miracle that happened. And when you re doing a movie about a real person, you can t say ‘Ohhh, all this would never happen, because it did! he added.