The Mighty Macs

The Mighty Macs is a 2009 American film by director Tim Chambers. It stars Carla Gugino in the lead role of Cathy Rush, a Hall of Fame womens basketball coach. The film premiered in the 2009 Heartland Film Festival and was released theatrically in the United States on October 21, 2011 through indie film label Freestyle Releasing.

The film was filmed in 2007, but not released until 2011 due to the difficulties of finding a distributor. The director, Tim Chambers, had a potential distribution deal with Disney, but turned it down because Disney wanted to add coarse language to earn PG rating, but Chambers preferred to go for a G rating. Chambers worked out a deal with Freestyle Releasing, and the movie opened four years after completing the filming.The Mighty Macs received mixed reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 46, based on 50 reviews, with an average rating of 5.410. The sites consensus reads, Its heart is obviously in the right place, but The Mighty Macs is too blandly formulaic to transcend the genres many clichs. On Metacritic, the film has a rating of 49 out of 100, based oncritics, indicating mixed or average reviews. ........

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