Glory Road PG
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 58 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 6, 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:
Playing out like Remember The Titans for basketball fans, Glory Road is yet another would-be inspirational true story that follows sports-movie conventions.
Screen International
Rating: 1.5/5 --
It isn't meant to be a movie that makes us think, or that makes us uneasy in any way. It's meant to make us feel good.
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Cinematical
Glory Road is a rousing and worthy tribute to one of the most important college basketball teams and one of the most important championship games of all time.
Ebert & Roeper
Rating: C --
An underdog sports movie by the numbers.
AV Club
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
[I]t will acquaint audiences with a remarkable episode that had ramifications far beyond the basketball court....The film does a good job of showcasing just how momentous that game was...
New York Times
The team's accomplishments are here diluted into fodder for another of the producer's feel-good man-weepies.
Village Voice
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.
Description by Buena Vista Home Entertainment:
Glory Road
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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- Sales Rank: 35,066
- UPC: 786936292626
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