Miles from Nowhere 2009

     Cameron Stiles is playing football in high school and his dad Gary Stiles is the coach.  Cam is good on the field and he will be able to get a scholarship for college.  His parents aren’t able to afford the tuition and fees to send Cam to college.  Cam and his best friend John go out to a party that John doesn’t want to attend.  Cam promises John that they won’t stay long.  John is committed to his training in track at the same school with Cam.  John decides to run home since Cam obviously isn’t ready to go home.  John is accidentally hit and killed by a car on his run home.  Cam feels responsible and he is totally devastated.  He decides to change to running track to in remembrance of John.  This change causes conflict between Cam and his father Gary because of the scholarship situation.

     Cam is torturing himself because of the accident and John’s death.  He decides to honor the life of John by following John’s goal of an under 4 minute mile.  I thought this was interesting and about the deep subjects of death, guilt, pain, forgiveness, parents and teens.  3 ½* (I liked this movie)

89 min, TV movie directed by David Burton Morris with Andrew Lawrence, Treat Williams, Joanna Going, Kevin Kilner, John Beasley, Rachel Style, Jake McLaughlin, Jarrod Bailey, Kevin Elms, Christa B. Allen, Ryan Krueger, Julian Alcaraz.

Note:  Imdb 6.7 out of 10, 79% critic 77% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon 4.6* out of 5* with 81 reviews.

Special Note:  Filmed in Los Angeles, California.  Also titled Chasing a Dream.  There is a quote from a proverb about the antelope and the lion.  "Both the antelope and the lion better be running when the sun comes up!!"