Remember the Titans (2000)
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 132
Fresh: 96 | Rotten: 36
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.
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 12
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.
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A high school football coach finds himself fighting for stakes much higher than the State Championship in this drama based on actual events. In 1971, a court order forces three high schools in Alexandria, Virginia (two white, one African-American), to integrate their student bodies and faculties for the first time. As a result, Coach Bill Yoast (Will Patton), longtime head coach of the T.C. Williams High School football team, is asked to step down, and Herman Boone (Denzel Washington) is
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Cast
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Denzel Washington
Coach Herman Boone -
Will Patton
Coach Bill Yoast -
Donald Faison
Petey Jones -
Wood Harris
Julius "Big Ju" Camp... -
Ryan Hurst
Gerry Bertier -
Ethan Suplee
Lewis Lastik -
Nicole Ari Parker
Carol Boone -
Hayden Panettiere
Sheryl Yoast -
Kip Pardue
Ronnie "Sunshine" Ba... -
Craig Kirkwood
Jerry "The Rev" Harr... -
Catherine Bosworth
Emma Hoyt -
Burgess Jenkins
Ray Budds -
Earl C. Poitier
Darryl "Blue" Stanto... -
Ryan Gosling
Alan Bosley -
Dan Albright
Doctor -
David de Vries
Parent -
J. Don Ferguson
Executive Director -
Tom Nowicki
Coach Ed Henry -
Afemo Omilami
Mr. Campbell -
Ric Reitz
Reporter #4 -
Brett Rice
Coach Tyrell -
Lou Walker
Ferdinand Day -
David Dwyer
Coach Tolbert (Grove... -
Tom Elliott
Titan -
Steve Martin
Heckler -
Matthew Adams
Heckler -
Richard Fullerton
A.D. Watson -
Jim Grimshaw
Coach Taber -
Tom Turbiville
Captain Hal -
Tim Ware
Mr. Bosley -
Greg Alan Williams
Coach "Doc" Hinds -
Stuart Greer
Marshall Assistant C... -
Michael Weatherly
Kirk Barker -
Andrew Masset
Col. Bass -
Scott Miles
Principal -
Neal Ghant
Glascoe -
David Jefferson Jr.
Cook -
Preston Brant
Jerry Buck -
Krysten Leigh Jones
Nicky Boone -
Walter Benjamin Keis...
Kip Tyler (Groveton) -
Marion Guyot
Mrs. Bertier -
Rhubarb Jones
Radio Announcer -
Bob Neal
Colorman -
Sharon Blackwood
Nurse -
Paula Claire Jones
White Girl #1 -
Kelly C. Cheston
White Girl #2 -
Walker Jones
White Kid #1 -
Ronald L. Connor
Black Kid #1 -
Courtney James Stewa...
Black Kid #2 -
E.Y. Coley
Official -
John Wesley Register
Official -
B. Keith Harmon
Crooked Official -
Andy Francis
Quarterback -
Derick Marshall
Davis -
Kevin Dankosky
Reporter #1 -
David Chandley
Reporter #2 -
Scott Slade
Reporter #3 -
Steve Barnes
Titan Supporter -
Rory Griffin
Titan -
Ryan Kowalske
Titan -
C. Stephen Browder
Titan -
Jameel Jackson
Titan -
Randy D. Patman Jr.
Titan -
Jemal L. Webb
Titan -
Shawn Cummings
Titan -
Michael Rouby
Titan -
Ray Stoney
Titan -
Shanda Besler
Emma's Friend -
Andrew Collins
Black Newspaper Man -
Marcus M. Moore
Special Teams Coach -
Ryan Duncan
Opposition Quarterba... -
Mike Pniewski
Cop -
Michael Pniewski
Cop -
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All Critics (135) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (96) | Rotten (36) | DVD (24)
Maybe it's all true. But one is always a little discomfited when life, or a movie, imitates weary melodramatic patterns this slavishly.
The leads, Denzel Washington and particularly Will Patton, are so good they occasionally make you forget the material is shameless.
Top CriticThe emphasis on the players' developing mutual trust, is absorbing to watch and cleanly directed.
The result is the sort of deeply massaged truth that isn't stranger than fiction -- it's worse than fiction.
When the hard battle for integration is served up as a feel-good package, we've all been bamboozled.
I admired the way the screenplay, by Gregory Allen Howard, doesn't make Boone noble and Yoast a racist, but shows them both as ambitious and skilled professionals.
Inspiring football drama brings history to life.
The crack-of-dawn jog to Gettysburg is the only hokey Hail Mary in an otherwise smart, stirring sports film. Consider "Titans" a PG-rated, kindhearted drill for the brutal sadism that would win Denzel Washington an Oscar for "Training Day."
The absence of innovation can easily be forgiven.
The film is quite lightweight for the subject matter, but Washington and company make it watchable.
Although there's enough emotional manipulation here to fill a river with tears, it's hard not to be swept up...
Yakin's hackwork is so slickly manipulative and preachy it has the tone of a politician's TV commercial...
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.
The film tries its best not to point fingers and avoids the strawmen racists that are so easily shown in other movies.
One of the most entertaining films of the year.
... a highly manipulative, utterly predictable and greatly entertaining film
...impossible to resist.
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.
Will someone please make me a great football movie?
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.
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.
We've seen this kind of sports movie a thousand times, but you know what, I like that movie.
Is perfecting the art of middle-of-the-road really what should be applauded in movie making today?
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Movies Like Remember the Titans
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- Petey Jones: Sunshine!
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- Coach Herman Boone: I don't scratch my head unless it itches and I don't dance unless I hear some music. I will not be intimidated. That's just the way it is.
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- Coach Herman Boone: This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law.
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- Coach Herman Boone: You think football is fun?
- Petey Jones: Zero fun sir!
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- Julius "Big Ju" Campbell: Attitude reflect leadership, captain.
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- Coach Herman Boone: We will be perfect in every aspect of the game. You drop a pass, you run a mile. You miss a blocking assignment, you run a mile. You fumble the football, and i will break my foot off in your John Brown hind parts and then you will run a mile. Perfection. Let's go to work.
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Foreign Titles
- Gegen jede Regel (DE)
- Le Plus beau des combats (FR)
