IN THE SAME KEY
Movies like McFarland, USA (2015)
McFarland, USA runs on crowd-pleaser, small-town intimacy, and warm hug. We scored our full corpus against that fingerprint: the films below sit closest to the same key.
The Big Green
1995
An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong
2009
The Ron Clark Story
2006
Follow Me, Boys!
1966
Facing the Giants
2006
Ramona and Beezus
2010
A League of Their Own
1992
Goal!
2005
Rad
1986
Hoosiers
1986
Camp Cool Kids
2017
Next Goal Wins
2023
Lemonade Mouth
2011
Flamin' Hot
2023
Dangerous Minds
1995
Queen of Katwe
2016
The Perfect Game
2009
Dumplin'
2018
The Wild Chicks
2006
The Rookie
2002
The Winning Season
2009
The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning
2007
Go Figure
2005
Chhalaang
2020