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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.

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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    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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    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
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    The result is the sort of deeply massaged truth that isn't stranger than fiction -- it's worse than fiction.

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    03/22/02
    Rick Groen
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    When the hard battle for integration is served up as a feel-good package, we've all been bamboozled.

    Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | comment 1 Comment
    05/08/01
    Peter Travers
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    N/R

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    Remember the Titans is similarly solid; its satisfactions are time-tested, a little worn but nonetheless durable.

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    01/01/00
    A.O. Scott
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    New York Times
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    Taken on its own terms, it's an agreeable entertainment, solidly crafted, wonderfully acted and often genuinely moving.

    Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
    01/01/00
    Andrew O'Hehir
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    Boorish and flatulent.

    Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
    01/01/00
    Dennis Lim
    Dennis Lim
    Village Voice
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    A crowd-pleaser with a moral conscience.

    Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
    01/01/00
    Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
    Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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    It's slick Hollywood product, all right, but it also may be the most moving and entertaining movie so far this year.

    Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
    01/01/00
    Eric Harrison
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    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.

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    Gene Seymour
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    Insufferable.

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    01/01/00
    Glenn Lovell
    Glenn Lovell
    San Jose Mercury News
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    If viewed as a crowd-pleasing, feel-good sports movie, the film is an unqualified success.

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    01/01/00
    James Berardinelli
    James Berardinelli
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    Washington and the others score in this predictable but rousing film where the big victory is over attitudes.

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    Jay Carr
    Jay Carr
    Boston Globe
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    Engagingly cast, with a lively soundtrack and glossy cinematography.

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    01/01/00
    Kenneth Turan
    Kenneth Turan
    Los Angeles Times
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    Titans may prove that Bruckheimer has a social conscience, but it can't hide his penchant for pandering.

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    01/01/00
    Lawrence Terenzi
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    Boaz Yakin gets uniformly winning performances from the little-known actors cast as the players.

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    01/01/00
    Lou Lumenick
    Lou Lumenick
    New York Post
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    Toss it in the bin along with The Replacements, but give it bonus points, at least, for having a social conscience.

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    01/01/00
    Michael O'Sullivan
    Michael O'Sullivan
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    A totally absorbing movie.

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    Michael Wilmington
    Michael Wilmington
    Chicago Tribune
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    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.

    Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
    01/01/00
    Mick LaSalle
    Mick LaSalle
    San Francisco Chronicle
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