📽️Raising the Bar: The Alma Richards Story (2025)🎥 FamilyShield Review

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📽️Raising the Bar: The Alma Richards Story (2025)🎥 FamilyShield Rated PG (Parental guidance suggested, with ✅no sexual content, ✅no LGBTQ+ content, ✅no woke content, ⭐️minimal rude behaviors, and ✅no or minimal bad language.)

✅LGBTQ+ free
✅Woke free

💲Worth paying to see.

ℹ️Great movie! Although some content may not be appropriate for younger audiences - or some parents may not want their kids exposed to it - it is so mild, and the movie promotes such great values that we would almost give it a G rating. See notes in the post describing the cautioned material. Other than that, some children may find the movie boring, as it is not animated, and the storyline is geared toward a more mature audience.

Material that may not be appropriate for some children:
1) 5 min 30 sec - Alma as a kid was yelling at a horse calling it idiot, stupid, and son of a ( but did not finish the phrase)
2) 8 min 50 sec - A teacher calling a student big and dumb
3) There is a part where Alma and the American team are in Sweden and a couple prostitutes come in and try to get with the Americans, one guy goes with a woman up stairs.

Plot:
In 1908, eighth-grader Alma Richards quits school in Parowan, Utah, to work as a ranch hand, seeing little value in education. A chance encounter with a Michigan State professor inspires him to resume his studies. Through high school, he discovers a talent for high jumping, a sport he hadn’t known about, honed by years of leaping fences and chasing jackrabbits on the farm. His natural athleticism leads him to the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, where, despite bullying from teammates and facing a stereotypical German rival, Hans Liesche, he defies odds to win the gold medal. The story emphasizes Richards’ humility, faith, and perseverance, culminating in his rise from an uneducated farm boy to an American hero.

Characters:
Alma Richards (Paul Wuthrich): A rural farm boy from Parowan, Utah, who discovers his talent for high jumping and competes in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.
Jim Thorpe (Anthony Garcia): A Native American athlete (Sac and Fox and Potawatomi Nations), Richards’ teammate, and historical Olympic figure.
Hans Liesche (Actor not specified): A German high jumper, Richards’ rival at the Olympics, portrayed stereotypically.
Margaret Richards (Ali Durham): Almas Mother
Morgan Richards (Nick Mathews): Almas Father

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