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Glory Road
Buena Vista Pictures
MPAA RATING: PG for racial issues including violence and epithets, and momentary language
Starring
Josh Lucas,
Derek Luke,
Austin Nichols,
Mehcad Brooks,
Alphonso McAuley,
Damaine Radcliff,
Emily Deschanel, Tatyana Ali,
and
Jon Voight
Glory Road tells the inspiring story of the underdog Texas Western basketball team, with history's first all African American starting lineup of players, who took the country by storm, surprisingly winning the 1966 NCAA tournament title. Josh Lucas stars as Hall of Famer Don Haskins, the passionately dedicated college basketball coach that changed the history of basketball with his team's victory in this time of innocence. (Disney)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Chris Cleveland
Gregory Allen Howard
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| DIRECTED BY: |
James Gartner
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: June 6, 2006
Theatrical: January 13, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
106 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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80
Variety
Brian Lowry
Slick enterprise buoyed by a Motown-flavored '60s soundtrack and an appealing ensemble cast.

80
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
From its sepia-toned palette to the Motown hits that drive its terrific soundtrack, Glory Road is utterly authentic. But most astonishing is an unrecognizable Jon Voight as Adolph Rupp.

75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Glory Road's strength is the way in which it blends social awareness into the sports genre.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Where it succeeds is as the story of a chapter in history, the story of how one coach at one school arrived at an obvious conclusion and acted on it, and helped open college sports in the South to generations of African Americans.

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
The movie's great end-title sequence redeems everything. Under the credits, we see and hear the real-life game veterans as they are now--including, movingly, ex-Lakers coach Riley.

75
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Lucas rarely breaks his glower to express anything other than tough determination. It's an attitude that's clearly modeled on that of storied Nicks' coach Pat Riley, who, it so happens, played for Kentucky that now legendary final game.

75
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
In the end, a sports movie is only as good as the adrenalin rush it provides in the climactic match, and there, finally, Glory Road hits on all cylinders with nonstop action and a powerful emotional impact.

70
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
When a movie plays every card, it's bound to win a hand or two. You can't exactly call that approach craftsmanship. But in the case of the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced inspirational sports drama Glory Road, it at least amounts to a kind of blunt effectiveness.

70
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
This isn't a great film, but it's a surprisingly good and confident one, with a minimum of the showboating that often substitutes, in the feelgood genre, for simple feelings.
70
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Stirring tale of a team whose big win speeds the integration of intercollegiate sports.

70
Dallas Observer
Bill Gallo
As American history, Glory Road is by turns inspirational and thrilling. But, in keeping with Hollywood's gift for exaggeration, a couple of things about it are completely bogus.

67
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Heart and verve in surfeit makes the film rise above its flaws often enough to win you over.

63
USA Today
Mike Clark
At least a more satisfying basketball saga than last year's "Coach Carter."

63
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
As movie fiction, I guess it is entertaining enough.

63
New York Post
Kyle Smith
As Coach Haskins would say, it wins because it sticks to the fundamentals.

63
Premiere
Ethan Alter
While basketball fans might have trouble recognizing the sport as it's played here, the games certainly aren't dull. Unfortunately, most of the off-court sequences are.

60
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Glory Road is satisfying less for its virtuosity than for its sincerity, and also because it will acquaint audiences with a remarkable episode that had ramifications far beyond the basketball court.

60
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
Ripped directly from Disney's playbook of inspirational sports movies, it's devoid of any original elements that might deter it from that successful formula, hewing closer to the sentimental cliches of "Remember the Titans" than the much better "Miracle" or "The Rookie."

58
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Still, it's only just a jump shot or two before Glory Road settles into its rudimentary, music-cued rhythms of classroom civics lessons punctuated by on-court action.

58
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Haskins comes across as too pure. When he plays only his black athletes in the championship finals, his monomania is presented as a good thing. After all, he won, didn't he?

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
David Hiltbrand
A formulaic and fuzzy feel-good movie.

50
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Glory Road treats history as if it were a 7th-grade social-studies text laid out in a 16-point font, getting the basics right without trying to evoke any of the details that would make it memorable. In other words, it gets the Bruckheimer treatment.

50
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
Glory Road really isn't a bad show – it's just an obvious one – and one wishes material of this historical import had received a more refined rendering.

50
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Josh Lucas plays Haskins with a no-bull vigor that comes in handy when the script saddles him with all-bull platitudes.

50
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
Glory Road keeps its focus frustratingly narrow. There's a nugget of an interesting idea here...But first-time director James Gartner's movie is less a study of race than it is a fast break of underdog clichés and "inspirational" speeches.

50
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
The end result is more a lecture than a film; audiences may come away understanding what went on, but for most, the emotional connection will be lacking.

50
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
This is a movie you could watch in your sleep.

50
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
First-time director James Gartner observes all the rituals--the coach busting chops, the team sneaking out to party--but the players are indifferently characterized and the civil rights story has a fake Black History Month feel.

50
Village Voice
Matt Singer
As Coach Haskins would have put it, "It's activity without accomplishment."

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
If you can get past a few swear words, the film's simplicity makes Glory Road a good starting point to get young kids to talk about racism.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
If the facts of the story are essentially true, their presentation is as formulaic as ever.

42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
The air of deja vu is thick as molasses in Glory Road, a lively but overly slick and grindingly predictable sports drama.

30
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
First-time director James Gartner has managed to whittle away whatever was compelling about the 1966 Miners championship run.


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