Glory Road
2006
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... Read more
| Starring | Joshua Lucas, Tatyana M. Ali, Jon Voight, Red West |
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| Director | James Garner |
| Genres | Drama |
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Glory Road
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...
| Starring | Joshua Lucas, Tatyana M. Ali, Jon Voight, Red West, Derek Luke, Al Shearer, Sam Jones III |
|---|---|
| Director | James Garner |
| Studio | WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 53 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | English |
| Dubbed | French, Spanish, Russian |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish, Latvian, Arabic, Romanian |
| Released | DVD: 07 Aug 2006 Production year: 2006 |
| Format | DVD |
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It 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...
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Glory Road entertains whilst pressing home an important message
Glory Road at first seems to be in the mould of 'Coach Carter' but with one very noticeable difference.The central theme of the movie is racism and the film is about making a nonsense out of racial stereotyping.The film includes some disturbing scenes which will put many people off seeing this film.
On the plus side,there are some uplifting yet intense scenes featuring the excellent Josh Lucas as the head coach of the team who instills a sense of solidarity and hard work into his players and it is satisfying to watch them grow together.
The film is set during the 1960s and the retro feel provided by the background music and clothes gives the movie some added charm.
It is well worth a look if you can tolerate some of the more unsavory aspects of the film's content. -
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5 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Very authentic real story
This is a very good film (based on a real story) - solid 3,5 stars. It is one of those films, when after watching it, you want to find out more about the real characters and hope there is enough “extras” to satisfy your curiosity. This movie tackles a serious issue of racism and prejudice against black players in the 60s. At the time they were not allowed to play Basketball competitively at colleges/universities and on national level. Very brave young coach takes the risk and recruits some talented black players offering a scholarship at Texas Western. It is portrayed very truthfully and realistically, it makes for a very compelling viewing. With everything so perfectly authentic you’ll enjoy it from the beginning to the end, without being a basketball enthusiast. Josh Lucas is gorgeous as the head coach, the cast, characters and acting is great. The only minor drawback for me was the length 2hrs (-7min), so not very good to watch on the week night, never the less the basketball games were so gripping that I didn’t mind staying up little bit longer than usual to watch the extras.
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