When filming The Long Game, major golf enthusiast Dennis Quaid learned something about making a golf movie the the hard way.
“You don’t get to play that much golf at all,” Quaid tells Den of Geek during a visit to our 2023 SXSW studio.
Directed by Julio Quintana, The Long Game is based on the 2012 book Mustang Miracle by Humberto Garcia. Both the book and now the film recount the real life story of the 1955-1957 San Felipe High School Mustangs golf team in Del Rio, Texas, which made up exclusively of Mexican-American players – a first for the sport.
In a time where golf reserved for wealthy and connected white men, five young Mexican-American caddies broke major cultural barriers by assembling a team to compete against (and ultimately defeat) their white peers. Jay Hernandez (Magnum P.I.) stars as the team’s teach and coach Jb Peña and Quaid as...
“You don’t get to play that much golf at all,” Quaid tells Den of Geek during a visit to our 2023 SXSW studio.
Directed by Julio Quintana, The Long Game is based on the 2012 book Mustang Miracle by Humberto Garcia. Both the book and now the film recount the real life story of the 1955-1957 San Felipe High School Mustangs golf team in Del Rio, Texas, which made up exclusively of Mexican-American players – a first for the sport.
In a time where golf reserved for wealthy and connected white men, five young Mexican-American caddies broke major cultural barriers by assembling a team to compete against (and ultimately defeat) their white peers. Jay Hernandez (Magnum P.I.) stars as the team’s teach and coach Jb Peña and Quaid as...
- 4/5/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Set in 1956 and ’57, The Long Game abounds in spectacular vintage cars, pristine and gleaming and a signal of the tidy shape of the movie’s narrative. That’s not to say there are no ups and downs, no setbacks and reversals in the drama that unfolds, but director Julio Quintana (The Vessel) has tailored it to reassure, using gentle comic strokes and zingy visuals to explore a true story of sports underdogs and their triumph against bigotry. Jay Hernandez provides the grounded enthusiasm as a high school administrator with a passion for golf and a vision of better things for Mexican Americans like him and his students. Together, he and his coltish team, dubbed the Mustangs, take on the country-club set, with Dennis Quaid providing effortless old-timer charm as a key ally and Cheech Marin on hand as a wiseass Yoda.
Hernandez plays Jb Peña, a veteran of World War II who,...
Hernandez plays Jb Peña, a veteran of World War II who,...
- 3/12/2023
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: The Long Game adds Cheech Marin, Oscar Nuñez, and Brett Cullen to its lineup, joining previously announced Jay Hernandez, Jaina Lee Ortiz, Dennis Quaid, and Julian Works.
Rounding out the cast are Richard Robichaux, Jimmy Gonzales Gregory Diaz IV, Miguel Ángel Garcia, Christian Gallegos, and José Julián.
Marin will portray Pollo, the golf course’s oracular groundskeeper who sets the young caddies on their journey. Diaz, Garcia, Gallegos, and Julián will portray the young golf players. No further details on the remainder of the roles were released.
Based on a true story set in mid-1950s Texas, the film spotlights five young Mexican-American caddies at a local, exclusive golf club where...
Rounding out the cast are Richard Robichaux, Jimmy Gonzales Gregory Diaz IV, Miguel Ángel Garcia, Christian Gallegos, and José Julián.
Marin will portray Pollo, the golf course’s oracular groundskeeper who sets the young caddies on their journey. Diaz, Garcia, Gallegos, and Julián will portray the young golf players. No further details on the remainder of the roles were released.
Based on a true story set in mid-1950s Texas, the film spotlights five young Mexican-American caddies at a local, exclusive golf club where...
- 7/27/2022
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
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