The Great Debaters (Collector's Edition) (2-DVD) PG-13
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 6 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 13, 2008
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Weinstein
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Denzel Washington, Nate Parker, Jermaine Williams, Kimberly Elise, Gina Ravera, Jurnee Smollett-Bell & Forest Whitaker | |
Performer: | Denzel Whitaker & John Heard | |
Directed by | Denzel Washington | |
Edited by | Hughes Winborne | |
Screenwriting by | Robert Eisele | |
Composition by | James Newton Howard & Peter Golub | |
Story by | Robert Eisele & Jeffrey Porro | |
Produced by | Todd Black, Kate Forte, Oprah Winfrey & Joe Roth | |
Director of Photography: | Philippe Rousselot | |
Executive Production by | Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein & David Crockett |
Entertainment Reviews:
The Great Debaters is well-acted, deeply felt and delivers a positive message about the importance of education.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Rating: B --
...The Great Debaters soars with words and feeling.
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Entertainment Weekly
There's a real organic sense in the film of how young minds can be nurtured and energized way beyond sex, sports and slacker attitude, into caring and evolving kid works-in-progress. And how debating can be pretty cool too, who knew?
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NewsBlaze
The film may be manipulative in its construction, and cliché-ridden in some of the incidents it recounts, but it has a good, large heart.
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TIME Magazine
THE GREAT DEBATERS soars with words and feeling... -- Grade: B
Entertainment Weekly
[With] strong, emotionally grounded performances....It radiates nobility of spirit.
New York Times
Rating: 7/10 --
Washington directed as well as starred, and it is clear he has no trouble wearing both hats at once
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ReelzChannel.com
Product Description:
IN THEATRES DECEMBER 25, 2007
Denzel Washington directs and stars in this uplifting drama based on a true story about a small East Texas all-black college in 1935 that rises to the top of the nation's debate teams in a duel against Harvard. A poet and debating coach at Wiley College, Professor Melvin Tolson (Washington) sees debating as "a blood sport" and recruits the meanest and brightest, including troubled Henry (Nate Parker), driven Samantha (Jurnee Smollet), and the 14-year-old prodigy James Farmer, Jr. (Denzel Whitaker). Oscar winner Forest Whitaker (no relation) plays Farmer's father, the initially unsupportive president of the school. There's tough training, romantic heat over the attentions of fiery Samantha (the first girl on the team), and some no holds-barred racism (including a witnessed lynching) before the big match-up against the Ivy League school, adding to the overall emotional force. Though feel-good historical competition movies like this have been done before, Washington serves up his effort as a lean, mean family dinner, with minimum fuss and maximum nutritional-educational value. Historical accuracy may be thrown to the wind more than once--Farmer is the only real student among the team, and the final debate was against USC, not Harvard--but the acting is uniformly superb. It's great to watch these kids slowly incorporate Tolson's incredible poise and intellectual rigor into their lives, and the message is as important as ever. Oprah Winfrey served as producer.
Denzel Washington directs and stars in this uplifting drama based on a true story about a small East Texas all-black college in 1935 that rises to the top of the nation's debate teams in a duel against Harvard. A poet and debating coach at Wiley College, Professor Melvin Tolson (Washington) sees debating as "a blood sport" and recruits the meanest and brightest, including troubled Henry (Nate Parker), driven Samantha (Jurnee Smollet), and the 14-year-old prodigy James Farmer, Jr. (Denzel Whitaker). Oscar winner Forest Whitaker (no relation) plays Farmer's father, the initially unsupportive president of the school. There's tough training, romantic heat over the attentions of fiery Samantha (the first girl on the team), and some no holds-barred racism (including a witnessed lynching) before the big match-up against the Ivy League school, adding to the overall emotional force. Though feel-good historical competition movies like this have been done before, Washington serves up his effort as a lean, mean family dinner, with minimum fuss and maximum nutritional-educational value. Historical accuracy may be thrown to the wind more than once--Farmer is the only real student among the team, and the final debate was against USC, not Harvard--but the acting is uniformly superb. It's great to watch these kids slowly incorporate Tolson's incredible poise and intellectual rigor into their lives, and the message is as important as ever. Oprah Winfrey served as producer.
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