Overcomer

Overcomer follows John Harrison, a high school basketball coach whose ambitions are upended when the town's largest employer shuts down and hundreds of families move away, leaving him without a team. Asked by school leadership to take on a sport he neither knows nor enjoys, he reluctantly agrees to coach cross-country. He soon meets a teenage girl with a demanding personal story of her own, and the two begin working together toward the year's biggest race.

Alex Kendrick directs and stars as John Harrison, with a screenplay he wrote alongside Stephen Kendrick. The supporting cast includes Priscilla C. Shirer, Cameron Arnett, Shari Rigby, Denise Armstrong and Jack Sterner, among 55 credited performers. The film is the sixth directed by Alex Kendrick, arriving after War Room in 2015 and followed by The Forge in 2024. It was produced by the Kendrick Brothers with Stephen Kendrick, Justin Tolley and Aaron Burns.

Made for about 5 million dollars, Overcomer went on to take roughly 38 million dollars worldwide, a return that indicates a substantial audience relative to its cost. On TMDB it holds a rating of 7.7 out of 10 from 310 votes, suggesting generally favorable viewer response.