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03/24/07
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Pride (2007)
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Reviews Counted:104
Fresh:48
Rotten:56
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: Pride features a typically stellar performance from Terrence Howard, but ultimately falls victim to its over usage of sports movie clichés.
Theatrical Release:Mar 23, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $7,036,608
Synopsis: Based on true events, Lionsgate's PRIDE tells the inspiring story of Jim Ellis, a charismatic schoolteacher in the 1970s who changed lives forever when he founded an African-American swim team in... [More]
Starring: Terrence Howard, Bernie Mac, Kimberly Elise, Tom Arnold
Director: Sunu Gonera
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Reviews for Pride
There's no excuse for Pride's mediocrity -- not with this story, not with this cast.
03/23/07
"Pride" is just another in a long list of true-life inspirational sports movies that offers absolutely nothing new, borrowing every maudlin cliché from "Brain's Song" to "Remember the Titans."
03/23/07
Manipulative rather than inspirational and hackneyed rather than original.
03/22/07
Top CriticPride is a lovingly-presented homage to the heroism of Jim Ellis' life and his life's work.
03/23/07
By painting in such broad strokes and playing up race-baiting that Ellis says he didn’t experience, are they not couching the movie as somehow uniquely “black”?
03/28/07
It's a testament to the performers that they can extract some fluid of suspense out of the rampant cliches spread out picnic-style in the final 20 minutes, and to Gonera's good fortune that he lucked into Terrence Howard.
03/22/07
A movie that deserves to succeed, but falls just short because it shows us much more than it teaches us.
07/09/07
Its worst feature, unfortunately, is the sports angle, which is mishandled by director Sunu Gonera and the film's four screenwriters.
03/23/07
It flounders in the shallow end for a really long time... by the time the story had a chance to move me, I was just ready to get out of the pool.
03/24/07
All sports movies talk the winning-isn't-everything talk, but Pride walks the walk.
03/22/07
Pride is a fairly predictable entry in the highly predictable inspirational sports drama genre. But the movie is saved by the earnest, believable performance of Terrence Howard and by Bernie Mac in a more serious role than usual.
03/23/07
"Pride" mitigates and collapses its subject into a pop mentality afraid of the trouble it aspires to disclose. It is at once a cowardly and cynical movie.
03/20/07
Bodies are framed and lit to be seen. In a movie where characters appear in dimly lit interiors or near light-reflecting chlorine-blue pools, this is no small thing.
04/01/07
What Gonera does well is to invest the film and its characters with Ellis' bywords--pride, determination and resilience.
03/23/07
Grab a real-life sports hero, whip up a few pointless catchphrases, and who cares if the rest is remotely good?
03/22/07
This is familiar terrain jazzed up by unfamiliar voices.
03/20/07
Top CriticNot even Howard's genuine appeal, or his can-do kids, can keep Pride out of the shallow end of the pool.
03/23/07
This surprisingly entertaining movie defies its formulaic plot and delivers a well-executed tale of team spirit.
03/25/07
[The film] has enough buoyancy to remain afloat, though without the vigor of Terrence Howard and the charm of Bernie Mac, it likely would sink in its own sea of clichés.
03/20/07
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