Is ‘Blue Miracle’ on Netflix Based on a True Story?

Netflix is starting the summer off strong with an exciting list of releases landing on the platform in May, and Blue Miracle is just one of them. The drama tells the story of a boys orphanage in Mexico that’s hit by a hurricane. To keep their home, the boys and their caretaker Omar enter Bisbee’s Black & Blue Tournament, a fishing competition.

Teaming up with a champion fisherman, the unlikely competitors set off to sea, hoping to win the prize money and save their orphanage from bankruptcy.

Blue Miracle teases an inspiring tale in its first trailer, but is the feel-good film really based on a true story? Here’s everything you need to know about the Blue Miracle movie coming to Netflix next month.

IS BLUE MIRACLE A TRUE STORY?

Yes, the inspiring story behind Blue Miracle is real. The upcoming drama is based on the true story of Casa Hogar, a boys home in Mexico that was hit hard by Hurricane Odile in 2014. The boys really did enter Bisbee’s Black & Blue Tournament, the world’s biggest fishing tournament, and had never even fished before.

According to a press release from that year, the boys were able to enter the tournament because of the “Bisbee Cabo Charter Hook-up,” which put local charter captains who were  “in real post-hurricane peril” back out on the sea. “An anonymous donor pledged to pay the entry fee through the fund to any team that agreed to hire a local boat, simultaneously injecting money into the economy and giving anglers a chance to check an item off personal bucket lists,” the report read.

If you’re curious to learn more about the true story behind the film, check out this Huffington Post article from 2014  — but be warned, it could spoil the Blue Miracle ending!

WHEN DOES BLUE MIRACLE PREMIERE ON NETFLIX?

While Blue Miracle hasn’t hit Netflix just yet, you won’t have to wait too long to watch it. Blue Miracle premieres on Netflix Thursday, May 27.

IS THERE A BLUE MIRACLE TRAILER?

Netflix released the first official trailer for Blue Miracle yesterday. To watch the Blue Miracle trailer, just scroll to the top of this article.

BLUE MIRACLE NETFLIX CAST: WHO STARS IN BLUE MIRACLE?

Blue Miracle stars Dennis Quaid as Wade, Bruce McGill as Wayne Bisbee, Raymond Cruz as Hector, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson as Tricia Bisbee, Fernanda Urrejola as Becca, Anthony Gonzalez as Geco, Jimmy Gonzales as Omar, and more.