Glory Road (2006)
56 %
Reviews Counted: 144 Fresh: 81 Rotten:63 Average Rating: 5.9/10
Consensus:
As formulaic as sports movies get, this underdog story still triumphs on the strength of its inspiring story.
Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
Theatrical Release: Jan 13, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $42,448,852
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Joshua Lucas, Tatyana Ali, Jon Voight, Red West, Derek Luke
Director: James Gartner
Screenwriter: Gregory Allen Howard
Producer: Chad Oman, Mike Stenson
Composer: Trevor Rabin
Screenwriter: Gregory Allen Howard
Producer: Chad Oman, Mike Stenson
Composer: Trevor Rabin
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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.
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03/25/08
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Why must Hollywood lace every African-American drama with elements of comedy, as if black people find everything comical?
05/02/07
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.
04/08/07
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.
03/24/07
This is the type of story that's better suited to the documentary format.
12/12/06
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.
11/19/06
It's Remember the Titans on the basketball court. Count it right up there with the best of Disney's fine sports flicks.
08/24/06
...it's ultimately rather difficult not to get caught up in this inspirational true-life tale.
06/24/06
Determinado a ressaltar a importância da história que está contando, o filme mergulha em erros factuais, maniqueísmos e clichês, transformando algo significativo em puro água-com-açúcar.
05/18/06
Gartner makes a hash of the game scenes and must resort to voiceover sportscasters to explain what’s happening.
05/12/06
A darn good story, told with enough conviction and impact to connect with people who don't know the difference between a three-pointer and a field goal.
05/04/06
The familiar territory covered here may leave you wishing for something that digs deeper into the soul of a sportsman's passion.
03/14/06
The true story is fascinating, groundbreaking and inspirational. It's a shame the cinematic treatment is predictable, conventional and trite.
02/21/06
All you need to know: it's a sports movie about race produced by Jerry Bruckheimer
02/04/06
The problem is not that they made the wrong movie, but that the movie they decided to make wasn't very good.
02/04/06
A great documentary could emerge from this story -- a film that deserves it.
02/01/06
It’s a safe and succinct tribute to a powerful true story, a breezy historical drama that aims for the gut more than the heart. And it succeeds in only that dimension, as an inescapably escapist one-course meal. But what history it has to work with.
02/01/06
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