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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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04/23/09
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 CriticBy 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
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
"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
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
...undone by its reliance on exceedingly conventional elements.
07/02/07
Pride is a generic title for a generic movie.
03/22/07
Somewhere around the corner from the school where Antonio Banderas is teaching tough kids to mambo and the school where Hilary Swank is teaching tough kids to love literature, Terrence Howard is teaching tough kids to swim.
03/22/07
Top CriticThere is not a single moment in Sunu Gonera's Pride that you haven't already seen, or that you can't predict.
03/23/07
I couldn't help thinking a documentary about the man would be so much more interesting than a watered-down, by-the-numbers dramatization.
03/24/07
Been there done that.
03/26/07
First-time director Sunu Gonera and his battalion of screenwriters have a beginner's flair for ruining nice moments with sickly-sweet excess.
03/22/07
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