Director: Julio Quintana
Five caddies with no course of their own decide to build one from scratch, and "The Long Game" turns that stubborn idea into a 2024 drama rooted in a real chapter of Texas history.
What is The Long Game about?
It is 1955 in the South Texas desert, and a group of young Mexican-American caddies spend their days carrying clubs for golfers at a club that will never let them join as members. Rather than accept the limits set for them, they set out to build their own golf course on unpromising land, teaching themselves the game they have only ever watched from the rough. The film follows their effort against a backdrop of everyday segregation, tracking both the practical grind of shaping a course out of desert scrub and the mentors and rivals who shape the young men along the way. Jay Hernandez and Dennis Quaid lead a cast that also includes Cheech Marin and Oscar Nunez, balancing the story's underdog sports arc with a clear-eyed look at the era it is set in, never losing sight of the community the caddies are building alongside the fairways themselves.
Cast & crew
Jay Hernandez anchors the film as one of the caddies determined to see the course built, with Dennis Quaid playing a pivotal mentor figure and Cheech Marin adding weight to the older generation around them. Julian Works, Jaina Lee Ortiz, Brett Cullen, Oscar Nunez, and Paulina Chávez round out a cast spanning the caddies, their families, and the community watching the project take shape.
Context & significance
Directed by Julio Quintana, "The Long Game" is drawn from an actual mid-century episode in South Texas golf history, and the production leans into period detail — clothing, cars, the texture of a still-segregated club scene — to keep the underdog structure honest rather than sentimental. A US-Colombia co-production, the film sits alongside a run of recent sports dramas that use a specific, under-told local story rather than a broad national one.
Where & how to watch
"The Long Game" is available on K-Time with a Persian dub, letting Farsi-speaking viewers follow the caddies' story without needing the original English audio. The page itself is free to browse, and watching the film requires nothing more than logging into a K-Time account, on a platform built around a Farsi-first experience for the diaspora.