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Remember the Titans

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Remember the Titans (2000)

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Reviews Counted: 126

Fresh: 89

Rotten:37

Average Rating: 6.2/10

Consensus: An inspirational crowd-pleaser with a healthy dose of social commentary, Remember the Titans may be predictable, but it’s also well-crafted and features terrific performances.

Rated: PG [See Full Rating] thematic elements and some language

Runtime: 2 hrs

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Sep 29, 2000 Wide

Box Office: $114,297,071

Synopsis: While on the surface, high school football may seem like an innocent game played by the young, for the young, it is, in fact, much, much more. For millions, including many fans who are well removed... While on the surface, high school football may seem like an innocent game played by the young, for the young, it is, in fact, much, much more. For millions, including many fans who are well removed from their high school years but who love to sit in those creaky bleachers every Friday night/Saturday morning, it is something akin to a religion. Director Boaz Yakin's REMEMBER THE TITANS captures the heart of high school football while tackling the sins of its fathers, chronicling the true story of the undefeated 1971 T.C. Williams team of Alexandria, Virginia, which was the first integrated high school team in the state. Denzel Washington brings his ever-powerful presence to the role of coach Herman Boone, who is brought in to oversee the transition to integration. Though Boone is eventually successful as a coach, the townspeople dissaprove of him because he replaces the popular, entrenched former coach, Bill Yoast (Will Patton). At first, coach Yoast resents being supplanted, while coach Boone is told that his promotion was just for show--to help the integration--and that he's likely to be lifted if the team loses a game. Will the coaches and players be able to overcome their adversity and make T.C. Williams a beacon for integration in sports? Those viewers who follow history already know the answer. But REMEMBER THE TITANS portrays the story and delivers the inspirational result with a passion and glory that will warm the hearts of all those dedicated high school football fans who continue to bring pride to the sport. [More]

Starring: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Hayden Panettiere, Donald Faison

Starring: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Hayden Panettiere, Donald Faison, Wood Harris, Ryan Hurst, Ethan Suplee, Nicole Ari Parker, Kip Pardue, Craig Kirkwood, Kate Bosworth

Director: Boaz Yakin

Director: Boaz Yakin
Screenwriter: Gregory Allen Howard
Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer, Chad Oman
Composer: Trevor Rabin
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures

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  • Remember The Titans
  • Academy Award(R)-winner Denzel Washington (Best Actor, TRAINING DAY, 2001) gives a victorious performance in this stirring and uplifting film. REMEMBER THE TITANS is a rousing celebration of how a town torn apart by resentment, friction, and mistrust comes together in triumphant harmony. The year is 1971. After leading his team to 15 winning seasons, football coach Bill Yoast (Will Patton) is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone (Washington), tough, opinionated, and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. How these two men overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions, plays out in a remarkable and triumphant story full of soul and spirit. You and your family will never forget the Titans.
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    The film is quite lightweight for the subject matter, but Washington and company make it watchable.

    Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
    08/07/08
    Mark Halverson
    Sacramento News & Review

    Although there's enough emotional manipulation here to fill a river with tears, it's hard not to be swept up...

    Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
    07/31/08
    Channel 4 Film
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    Maybe it's all true. But one is always a little discomfited when life, or a movie, imitates weary melodramatic patterns this slavishly.

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    07/31/08
    Richard Schickel
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    Yakin's hackwork is so slickly manipulative and preachy it has the tone of a politician's TV commercial...

    Full Review Source: Movieline | comment Comment
    05/29/08
    Michael Atkinson
    Movieline

    The leads, Denzel Washington and particularly Will Patton, are so good they occasionally make you forget the material is shameless.

    Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
    03/26/07
    Chicago Reader
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    Unless you find the idea of such an earnest, well-meaning mixture of rah-rah sports action, social commentary and maudlin tearjerker off-putting from the start, you'll find that this example is professionally crafted and perhaps even momentarily stirring.

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    07/24/06
    Frank Swietek
    One Guy's Opinion

    The emphasis on the players' developing mutual trust, is absorbing to watch and cleanly directed.

    Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
    06/24/06
    Trevor Johnston
    Time Out

    The film tries its best not to point fingers and avoids the strawmen racists that are so easily shown in other movies.

    Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | comment Comment
    03/15/06
    Kevin Carr
    7M Pictures

    One of the most entertaining films of the year.

    Full Review Source: Supercala.com | comment Comment
    12/31/05
    John Venable
    Supercala.com

    ... a highly manipulative, utterly predictable and greatly entertaining film

    Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | comment Comment
    01/29/05
    Philip Martin
    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

    ...impossible to resist.

    Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
    08/01/03
    David Nusair
    Reel Film Reviews

    The best performance here, though, is by Will Patton who infuses his Coach Yoast with the humanity that's strangely missing from Washington's Coach Boone.

    Full Review Source: Film Blather | comment Comment
    05/22/03
    Eugene Novikov
    Film Blather

    Will someone please make me a great football movie?

    Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment 1 Comment
    05/14/03
    Jeanne Aufmuth
    Palo Alto Weekly

    Remember The Titans won't win any Oscars and it won't explain the rules of American football but the glow will last the whole way home.

    Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) | comment Comment
    04/08/03
    Harry Guerin
    RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

    A moving story with nice work from young actors Wood Harris and Ryan Hurst, among others, as the young men forced to see beyond skin color.

    Full Review Source: Film Quips Online | comment Comment
    02/08/03
    John R. McEwen
    Film Quips Online

    We've seen this kind of sports movie a thousand times, but you know what, I like that movie.

    Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
    12/08/02
    Chris Gore
    Film Threat

    Is perfecting the art of middle-of-the-road really what should be applauded in movie making today?

    Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
    12/08/02
    Susannah Breslin
    Film Threat

    This film has an important message, well told.

    Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan | comment Comment
    10/21/02
    Jean Lowerison
    San Diego Metropolitan

    A sprawling, muscular gridiron movie that, surprisingly enough, doesn’t have all that much to do with football.

    Full Review Source: Cincinnati Enquirer | comment Comment
    10/15/02
    Margaret A. McGurk
    Cincinnati Enquirer

    A wonderful crowd pleaser, and as long as you don’t expect too much of it or think about it too deeply, it will remain a favourite.

    Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
    09/14/02
    Derek Smith
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