Gringa (2023)
Large Marge Bickford (Jess Gabor), “Butt too big, boobs too small…generation XL”, navigates the halls of her high school and the chalked lines of its soccer field with the same sense of failure and dread. This is not a happy kid. Marge is most often alone but not necessarily lonely, just resigned. Life is passing her by and she doesn’t seem to mind…until the death of her nearly perfect Mom (Judy Greer). Marge refuses to move to Arizona to live with her ultra-conservative grandparents and instead flees to Mexico to find her estranged dad (Steve Zahn) …a washed-up pro soccer star who ran away to hide from his parental responsibilities, a bad marriage and the stink of failure. But the humbled American soccer phenom has found his niche in a small village on Mexico’s central west coast. Jackson Bickford is the local handyman and beloved coach of the village’s ragtag women’s equipo de fútbol. Until his daughter shows up.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sports
Director: EJ Foerster, Marny Eng
Producer: J. Kennth Tate, EJ Foerster, Marny Eng, Eric Hedayat, Eric Reid
Writer: Patrick Hasburgh
Cast: Steve Zahn, Jess Gabor, Roselyn Sanchez, Judy Greer, Jorge A. Jimenez