Blue Miracle2021Blue Miracle
2021
Omar runs a struggling boys' home in Cabo San Lucas and is about to lose it to debt. His only hope is to team up with a washed-up, gruff fishing captain and enter the biggest fishing tournament on the coast with two of his boys. Based on a true story.
For older children: stronger profanity, sexual content, or heavy themes that Common Sense Media rates 10–12, best watched with a parent.
Why it’s here
Based on a true story: a man who was once an orphan himself gives his life to fathering boys, teaming up with a gruff captain to save their home. It shows fatherlessness as a wound and fathering as a calling.
Context notes
For parents, before you press play.
Gang shootings in the background, boys' stories of abuse, and an offer to run drugs, which is refused and shown as the right choice. Men drink to excess and there's mild profanity ("piss," "hell").
Blue Miracle (2021)
Discussion questions
When the credits end, go around the room. Each person gives the film a score out of ten and says why.
- Why did Omar care so much about the boys?
- What did Wade and Omar learn from each other?
- What did you think of Moco? Did he change?
- Which moment on the water stuck with you most?
Content advisory
Common Sense Media 11+: gang gunfire and stories of abuse; mild profanity; drinking to excess; a drug-running job offered.
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