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The studio that brought you REMEMBER THE TITANS now delivers another winner with this exciting and inspirational true story of the team that changed college basketball -- and the nation -- forever! Josh Lucas (SWEET HOME ALABAMA) stars as future Hall of Fame coach Don Haskins of tiny Texas Western University, who bucks convention by simply starting the best players he can find: history's first all-African American lineup. In a turbulent time of social and political change, their unlikely success sends shock waves through the sport that follow the underdog Miners all the way to an epic showdown with all-white, #1 ranked Kentucky for the National Championship!
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Screen Format: Widescreen/ Color
Language: English
CRITIC REVIEWS
Lew Irwin
Last year at this time it was Coach Carter; this year, it's Glory Road -- what A.O. Scott in the New York Times calls, the season's obligatory inspirational coach-centered sports movie. Like other critics, Scott observes that the film will win no awards for originality. He adds: Movies like this are rarely great, but when executed properly, they're rarely bad, either. Glory Road is satisfying less for its virtuosity than for its sincerity, and also because it will acquaint audiences with a remarkable episode that had ramifications far beyond the basketball court -- the appearance in 1966 of an all-black basketball team for the first time in the NCAA basketball championships. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times writes that the film succeeds as the story of a chapter in history, the story of how one coach at one school arrived at an obvious conclusion and acted on it, and helped open college sports in the South to generations of African Americans. But Chris Kaltenbach in the Baltimore Sun doesn't buy any of such praise. The end result is more a lecture than a film; audiences may come away understanding what went on, but for most, the emotional connection will be lacking, he writes. Similarly, David Hiltbrand in the Philadelphia Inquirer concludes: Viewed as a recreation of a watershed moment, Glory Road is sturdy, efficient, perhaps even worthy. Taken as cinema, however, it falls far short of inspiring.
Reviewed by: jelly15 on 9/3/2006 6:37:05 PM
Based on a true story, this story was absolutely astounding and honorable. This true story can inspire us all. Buy this movie and watch it from beginning to end.
Lew Irwin
Last year at this time it was Coach Carter; this year, it's Glory Road -- what A.O. Scott in the New York Times calls, the season's obligatory inspirational coach-centered sports movie. Like other critics, Scott observes that the film will win no awards for originality. He adds: Movies like this are rarely great, but when executed properly, they're rarely bad, either. Glory Road is satisfying less for its virtuosity than for its sincerity, and also because it will acquaint audiences with a remarkable episode that had ramifications far beyond the basketball court -- the appearance in 1966 of an all-black basketball team for the first time in the NCAA basketball championships. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times writes that the film succeeds as the story of a chapter in history, the story of how one coach at one school arrived at an obvious conclusion and acted on it, and helped open college sports in the South to generations of African Americans. But Chris Kaltenbach in the Baltimore Sun doesn't buy any of such praise. The end result is more a lecture than a film; audiences may come away understanding what went on, but for most, the emotional connection will be lacking, he writes. Similarly, David Hiltbrand in the Philadelphia Inquirer concludes: Viewed as a recreation of a watershed moment, Glory Road is sturdy, efficient, perhaps even worthy. Taken as cinema, however, it falls far short of inspiring.
Reviewed by: jelly15 on 9/3/2006 6:37:05 PM
Based on a true story, this story was absolutely astounding and honorable. This true story can inspire us all. Buy this movie and watch it from beginning to end.
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Reviewed by: jelly15 on 9/3/2006 6:37:05 PM
Based on a true story, this story was absolutely astounding and honorable. This true story can inspire us all. Buy this movie and watch it from beginning to end.
(Read More Customer Reviews...)Reviewed by: brotherman64 on 7/27/2006 2:45:29 PM
If you love basketball, then this is for you.An amazingly accurate depiction of the 1966 championship game between West Texas and Kentucky.Don't miss this film!
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