Maybe it's all true. But one is always a little discomfited when life, or a movie, imitates weary melodramatic patterns this slavishly.
Remember the Titans (2000)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:19
Rotten:12
Average Rating:5.7/10
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.
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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Reviews for Remember the Titans
The leads, Denzel Washington and particularly Will Patton, are so good they occasionally make you forget the material is shameless.
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.
Remember the Titans is similarly solid; its satisfactions are time-tested, a little worn but nonetheless durable.
Taken on its own terms, it's an agreeable entertainment, solidly crafted, wonderfully acted and often genuinely moving.
It's slick Hollywood product, all right, but it also may be the most moving and entertaining movie so far this year.
All heart, big muscles and not a whole lot of gray matter upstairs. Still, once in a while, it shows itself to be just smart enough to make a key play.
If viewed as a crowd-pleasing, feel-good sports movie, the film is an unqualified success.
Washington and the others score in this predictable but rousing film where the big victory is over attitudes.
Titans may prove that Bruckheimer has a social conscience, but it can't hide his penchant for pandering.
Boaz Yakin gets uniformly winning performances from the little-known actors cast as the players.
Toss it in the bin along with The Replacements, but give it bonus points, at least, for having a social conscience.
The good news is that whenever the tear-and-a-smile stuff threatens to go overboard, the film pulls back and gives us another scene on the football field, and all the football scenes are strong.
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