I must say I'm becoming very impressed with Jerry Bruckheimer as of late.
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
Reviews for Remember the Titans
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.
The film is quite lightweight for the subject matter, but Washington and company make it watchable.
Although there's enough emotional manipulation here to fill a river with tears, it's hard not to be swept up...
Maybe it's all true. But one is always a little discomfited when life, or a movie, imitates weary melodramatic patterns this slavishly.
Yakin's hackwork is so slickly manipulative and preachy it has the tone of a politician's TV commercial...
The leads, Denzel Washington and particularly Will Patton, are so good they occasionally make you forget the material is shameless.
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.
The emphasis on the players' developing mutual trust, is absorbing to watch and cleanly directed.
The film tries its best not to point fingers and avoids the strawmen racists that are so easily shown in other movies.
... a highly manipulative, utterly predictable and greatly entertaining film
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.
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.
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.
We've seen this kind of sports movie a thousand times, but you know what, I like that movie.
Is perfecting the art of middle-of-the-road really what should be applauded in movie making today?
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