Glory Road (Blu-ray) PG
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 58 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 17, 2006
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Walt Disney Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Josh Lucas, Tatyana Ali, Jon Voight & Joshua Lucas | |
Performer: | Red West, Derek Luke, Al Shearer & Sam Jones III | |
Directed by | James Garner | |
Edited by | John Wright | |
Screenwriting by | Gregory Allen Howard | |
Composition by | Trevor Rabin | |
Vocalist: | Alicia Keys | |
Produced by | Chad Oman & Mike Stenson | |
Director of Photography: | Jeffrey L. Kimball & John Toon | |
Executive Production by | Jerry Bruckheimer |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: C --
An underdog sports movie by the numbers.
AV Club
Rating: C --
This is the type of story that's better suited to the documentary format.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
First-time director James Gartner observes all the rituals--the coach busting chops, the team sneaking out to party--but the players are indifferently characterized and the civil rights story has a fake Black History Month feel.
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Chicago Reader
The team's accomplishments are here diluted into fodder for another of the producer's feel-good man-weepies.
Village Voice
Rating: 2.0/5 --
Glory Road doesn't have any of the individual moments that humanized Hoosiers, The Rookie, and Miracle. It's a feel-good sports movie by the numbers.
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Bright Lights Film Journal
Rating: 6/10 --
Like most sports films Glory Road works best when it is actually showcasing its sport ... off the court, however, it's alternately flat and didactic. Director Gartner goes to great pains to drill the films message in, early and often.
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ComingSoon.net
Rating: 4/5 --
If you're a basketball fan, you'll love it. If you're a parent looking for movie inspiration for your offspring, see it as a family outing. For everyone else, Glory Road is an accessible time capsule of American history.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Product Description:
GLORY ROAD is about more than a college basketball team in the mid-1960s playing its way to the championship: it is the true story of a coach and his team taking a stand against discrimination in order to play their best game. As the new men's basketball coach at Texas Western, Don Haskins has one goal: to win. At a time when most Southern universities had few black players on their teams and rarely played more than two at the same time, Haskins recruits an unprecedented seven black players for his team and often has three of them starting. His new additions have played on the streets of the South Bronx between breaks at a Detroit steel company, and added fancy moves with the hope of playing for the Harlem Globetrotters. In addition to adjusting to life at Texas Western in El Paso, the players have to integrate with their white teammates and face discrimination from all fronts: the school administration, donors and alumni, spectators, and random strangers, not to mention other basketball teams.To everyone's surprise, the underdog Miners take on team after team, making it all the way to the 1966 NCAA championships. In an historic NCAA final game against the University of Kentucky Wildcats, Haskins played the first all-black collegiate basketball starting lineup, in many ways opening new doors for black players everywhere.
James Gartner's feature film directorial debut has impressive performances, great basketball action, snappy dialogue, and just the right amount of humor to complement the seriousness of its main subject. Most important, it pays tribute to an inspirational team and its coach, capturing a moment that changed the sport of basketball forever. Be sure to stick around through the credits to see interviews with the actual team members.
James Gartner's feature film directorial debut has impressive performances, great basketball action, snappy dialogue, and just the right amount of humor to complement the seriousness of its main subject. Most important, it pays tribute to an inspirational team and its coach, capturing a moment that changed the sport of basketball forever. Be sure to stick around through the credits to see interviews with the actual team members.