Nonureva Really Surprised!

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Rexanne It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

tomwal While I agree that Glory Road is exciting and inspiring, the fact remains that the movie takes liberties with the real facts.First of all was Jon Voights role as Adolph Rupp.Im a native Kentuckian and listened to and later saw interviews with the noted Kentucky coach . While the Wildcats did play for many years with a segregated team, There were African American players recruited in later years. Kentucky was one of the first SEC teams to break the color barrier. That said ,on to the film The film moves quickly . Great photography and sets are standouts. The final minutes of the NCAA Championship are breath taking. Good cast brings the story to a satisfactory conclusion. Rating of eight stars out of ten.

SnoopyStyle In 1965 Fort Worth, Texas, Don Haskins (Josh Lucas) coaches high school girls' basketball. He gets recruited and moves his wife Mary (Emily Deschanel) and young kids to Texas Western College in El Paso, Texas. It's a shoestrings program with no ambitions. Nobody wants to sign with the losing team until Don sees a black player named Bobby Joe Hill (Derek Luke). He ignores the unwritten rule of playing one at home, two on the road and three if you're losing. Don starts recruiting both blacks and whites. He insists on coaching traditional basketball. There is racial tension within and outside the team. They overcome many hurdles on their way to reach the NCAA championship.This is the standard sports movie overcoming racial inequality. I guess that can be counted as a negative but it doesn't have to be. This is well-acted with some good characters. It can come off as cliché but all that means is that people keep telling the same story over and over again. There's a reason why storytellers keep going back to the same well. It touches something within our humanity.

blanche-2 Josh Lucas stars in "Glory Road," a 2006 Disney film, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.The film purports to tell the true story of Don Haskins, the basketball coach led the Texas Western Miners to a National Championship victory in 1966.From what I know, there is a lot of dramatic license taken here, though it remains an inspiring story, and the basketball game played at the championships was very exciting. Also, at the end of the film, there are interviews with the real-life players and with Haskins himself as the credits are rolling. Haskins recruited players with no regard to color, forming a team with 7 blacks and 5 white players. He wasn't the first person to have black players on a team. I think what made him stand out were the numbers and the fact that at the championship, the starters were black and everyone on the Kentucky team was white.The film shows Haskins as an extremely tough coach, and his insistence that there be no "showboating" However, during a losing game (and I have no idea if this is true) one of the black players told Haskins that they should be allowed to play "their game" which included some showboating, I guess. Haskins said okay and the team went on to win.In the championship game, they went up against Kentucky, coached by Ed Rupp (Jon Voight) who is portrayed as a racist. However, he went on to draft black players and is considered one of the greatest coaches in college basketball. Josh Lucas plays Haskins, and he does a great job as a tough, determined coach. He was the reason I rented this film as I liked him on his ill-fated TV show, The Firm. He really carries this movie. Jon Voight, Emily Deschanel (Haskins' wife) have small roles as the focus is on the team players. The actors on the team all did a wonderful job. The film shows the hatred and prejudice against them but also the eventual acceptance. In the film, there are problems within the team when the new players first arrived, though I understand that wasn't really the case.Like all of these underdog films, it's inspiring with exciting, moving, and dramatic moments. Recommended.

prometheus_prime If you like sports movies this will be another one to add to your list. Although some of the facts where changed to work with the film it is still very worth it. Watching the man that is Don Haskins and what he was able to accomplish in becoming a national treasure. This was not just a sports story it was about the changing of tolerance and what hard work, discipline with the right leadership can do. The acting performances from all the actors were superb and outstanding. Josh's portrayal as Haskins was remarkable. Don was a coach who did not believe in flashy plays even slam dunks weren't allowed he felt it was showboating and showed someones insecurity. He wanted to instill the fundamentals of basketball cause he knew thats what would make them winners. He also wanted the absolute best talent their was it did not matter their race. He wanted no part in making political statements. When he had the starting line-up during the championship game all being black it wasn't to say how things should change it was about winning and he felt they had the best chance. As history would put it this helped break down some of the color barriers in sports. What was impressive was the look and feel of the movie it looked as if it was real film footage. The attention to detail from the replica signs, to the concession cups even the clothes and plays in the final game made it even more exceptional. This was a great entertaining movie don't expect a biopic just watch as a enjoyable movie.