Glory Road (2006)
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 150
Fresh: 83 | Rotten: 67
As formulaic as sports movies get, this underdog story still triumphs on the strength of its inspiring story.
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 14
As formulaic as sports movies get, this underdog story still triumphs on the strength of its inspiring story.
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A true-life story of a basketball team who broke down barriers while racking up victories is the basis for this sports drama. Don Haskins (Josh Lucas) was a high school and college basketball star who, after six years of working with high school teams, became the head coach at Texas Western University in 1962. At that time, Texas Western's basketball program was not well respected, but Haskins was determined to change that, and in 1966 Haskins assembled what he was certain was a winning team.
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Josh Lucas
Don Haskins -
Derek Luke
Bobby Joe Hill -
Jon Voight
Adolph Rupp -
Emily Deschanel
Mary Haskins -
Evan Jones
Moe Iba -
Red West
Ross Moore -
Kim Wall
Kentucky Wife #1 -
Tatyana Ali
Tina -
Sam Jones III
Willie Worsley -
Austin Nichols
Jerry Armstrong -
Alphonso McAuley
Orsten Artis -
Mehcad Brooks
Harry Flournoy Jr. -
Damaine Radcliff
Willie "Scoops" Cager -
Al Shearer
Nevil Shed -
Schin S. Kerr
David Lattin -
Kip Weeks
Togo Railey -
Mitch Eakins
Dick Meyers -
Alejandro Hernández
David Palacio -
James Olivard
Louie Baudoin
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All Critics (154) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (86) | Rotten (69) | DVD (20)
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.
Top CriticGlory 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.
The team's accomplishments are here diluted into fodder for another of the producer's feel-good man-weepies.
An appealing Disney sports movie that underplays its potential, Glory Road is at least a more satisfying basketball saga than last year's Coach Carter.
Lacking the gritty reality of the 1994 documentary Hoop Dreams, this Jerry Bruckheimer film, directed by newcomer James Gartner, converts a year in the life of a basketball team into a very conventional triumph of the underdogs.
OK, so you really don't need me to tell you about Glory Road if you've ever seen a sports movie before. Just get out your sports-movie-cliché checklist and a pencil.
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.
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.
Inspiring sports flick about an underdog team.
Playing out like Remember The Titans for basketball fans, Glory Road is yet another would-be inspirational true story that follows sports-movie conventions.
The Harlem Globetrotters meets Stepin' Fetchit.
Why must Hollywood lace every African-American drama with elements of comedy, as if black people find everything comical?
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.
Trying to make a sports movie for the entire family is understandable, but it makes a complicated story like Glory Road feel more like Disney than reality.
This is the type of story that's better suited to the documentary format.
An underdog sports movie by the numbers.
Like Hoosiers, this Jerry Bruckheimer film is a David and Goliath sports saga that holds just as much suspense and interest no matter how many times you watch it.
It's Remember the Titans on the basketball court. Count it right up there with the best of Disney's fine sports flicks.
History wins in by-the-numbers sports flick ...
...it's ultimately rather difficult not to get caught up in this inspirational true-life tale.
Simplistic, but emotionally satisfying
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