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Remember the Titans

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Remember the Titans (2000)

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Reviews Counted:128

Fresh:91

Rotten:37

Average Rating:6.2/10

Consensus: An inspirational crowd-pleaser with a healthy dose of social commentary, Remember the Titans may be predictable, but it’s also well-crafted and features terrific performances.

Runtime: 2 hrs

Genre: Dramas

US Box Office: $114,297,071

Synopsis: While on the surface, high school football may seem like an innocent game played by the young, for the young, it is, in fact, much, much more. For millions, including many fans who are well removed... While on the surface, high school football may seem like an innocent game played by the young, for the young, it is, in fact, much, much more. For millions, including many fans who are well removed from their high school years but who love to sit in those creaky bleachers every Friday night/Saturday morning, it is something akin to a religion. Director Boaz Yakin's REMEMBER THE TITANS captures the heart of high school football while tackling the sins of its fathers, chronicling the true story of the undefeated 1971 T.C. Williams team of Alexandria, Virginia, which was the first integrated high school team in the state. Denzel Washington brings his ever-powerful presence to the role of coach Herman Boone, who is brought in to oversee the transition to integration. Though Boone is eventually successful as a coach, the townspeople dissaprove of him because he replaces the popular, entrenched former coach, Bill Yoast (Will Patton). At first, coach Yoast resents being supplanted, while coach Boone is told that his promotion was just for show--to help the integration--and that he's likely to be lifted if the team loses a game. Will the coaches and players be able to overcome their adversity and make T.C. Williams a beacon for integration in sports? Those viewers who follow history already know the answer. But REMEMBER THE TITANS portrays the story and delivers the inspirational result with a passion and glory that will warm the hearts of all those dedicated high school football fans who continue to bring pride to the sport. [More]

Starring: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Hayden Panettiere, Donald Faison

Starring: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Hayden Panettiere, Donald Faison, Wood Harris, Ryan Hurst, Ethan Suplee, Nicole Ari Parker, Kip Pardue, Craig Kirkwood, Kate Bosworth

Director: Boaz Yakin

Director: Boaz Yakin
Screenwriter: Gregory Allen Howard
Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer, Chad Oman
Composer: Trevor Rabin
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures

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I must say I'm becoming very impressed with Jerry Bruckheimer as of late.

Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | comment Comment
10/30/01
Garth Franklin
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons
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This doesn't probe very deep and belongs firmly in the warm and fuzzy race-relations stable but has just enough below the surface to muster a pass mark.

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02/07/01
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The film is quite lightweight for the subject matter, but Washington and company make it watchable.

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
08/07/08
Mark Halverson
Mark Halverson
Sacramento News & Review

Although there's enough emotional manipulation here to fill a river with tears, it's hard not to be swept up...

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07/31/08
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Maybe it's all true. But one is always a little discomfited when life, or a movie, imitates weary melodramatic patterns this slavishly.

Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | comment Comment
07/31/08
Richard Schickel
Richard Schickel
TIME Magazine

Yakin's hackwork is so slickly manipulative and preachy it has the tone of a politician's TV commercial...

Full Review Source: Movieline | comment Comment
05/29/08
Michael Atkinson
Michael Atkinson
Movieline

The leads, Denzel Washington and particularly Will Patton, are so good they occasionally make you forget the material is shameless.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
03/26/07
Chicago Reader
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Unless you find the idea of such an earnest, well-meaning mixture of rah-rah sports action, social commentary and maudlin tearjerker off-putting from the start, you'll find that this example is professionally crafted and perhaps even momentarily stirring.

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07/24/06
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
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The emphasis on the players' developing mutual trust, is absorbing to watch and cleanly directed.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Trevor Johnston
Trevor Johnston
Time Out

The film tries its best not to point fingers and avoids the strawmen racists that are so easily shown in other movies.

Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | comment Comment
03/15/06
Kevin Carr
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

One of the most entertaining films of the year.

Full Review Source: Supercala.com | comment Comment
12/31/05
John Venable
John Venable
Supercala.com

... a highly manipulative, utterly predictable and greatly entertaining film

Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | comment Comment
01/29/05
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

...impossible to resist.

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08/01/03
David Nusair
David Nusair
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The best performance here, though, is by Will Patton who infuses his Coach Yoast with the humanity that's strangely missing from Washington's Coach Boone.

Full Review Source: Film Blather | comment Comment
05/22/03
Eugene Novikov
Eugene Novikov
Film Blather

Will someone please make me a great football movie?

Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment 1 Comment
05/14/03
Jeanne Aufmuth
Jeanne Aufmuth
Palo Alto Weekly

Remember The Titans won't win any Oscars and it won't explain the rules of American football but the glow will last the whole way home.

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04/08/03
Harry Guerin
Harry Guerin
RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

A moving story with nice work from young actors Wood Harris and Ryan Hurst, among others, as the young men forced to see beyond skin color.

Full Review Source: Film Quips Online | comment Comment
02/08/03
John R. McEwen
John R. McEwen
Film Quips Online

We've seen this kind of sports movie a thousand times, but you know what, I like that movie.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/08/02
Chris Gore
Chris Gore
Film Threat

Is perfecting the art of middle-of-the-road really what should be applauded in movie making today?

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/08/02
Susannah Breslin
Susannah Breslin
Film Threat

This film has an important message, well told.

Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan | comment Comment
10/21/02
Jean Lowerison
Jean Lowerison
San Diego Metropolitan
 
 
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