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Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, The
Cowboy Booking International
MPAA RATING: Not rated
Starring
Alan M. Dershowitz,
Carl Levin,
Sander Levin,
Walter Matthau,
and
Michael Moriarty
A humorous and nostalgic documentary about an extraordinary baseball player who transcended ethnic and religious prejudice to become an American icon. (Cowboy Booking International)
| GENRE(S): |
Documentary
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Aviva Kempner
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Aviva Kempner
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 16, 2001
Video: October 16, 2001
Theatrical: February 18, 2000
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| RUNNING TIME: |
90 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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91
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
A rousing and agreeable movie that resurrects a small but important episode in baseball history that parallels the larger history of the nation.
91
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A sprightly, lovingly researched, rather misty-eyed sports documentary that's steeped in ethnic pride.

90
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
Engaging and revelatory, turning forgotten footnotes and discarded minutiae into the stuff of riveting drama and poignant laughs.

89
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Kempner's documentary is a streamlined, gorgeous piece of work, full of revelations of time, place, and person.

88
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Filled with delightful sequences.
88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
Scrupulously made and deeply affectionate.
88
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Hank Greenberg was to Jews what Jackie Robinson was to African Americans: a great athlete, handsome and hard-working, who took the first line of abuse from bigots and proved that his people belonged at the highest level of professional sports.

88
Chicago Tribune
Marc Caro
Tells an inspiring story, unknown or forgotten by many, while bringing the past to life and illuminating issues that persist today.
88
USA Today
Staff [Not Credited]
A model of what a largely talking-heads documentary should be, with on-camera testimonials and lots of film clips that offer layers of context.
88
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
While it preserves his baseball feats, it looks beyond them to clarify Greenberg's place in American culture.

88
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Kempner demonstrates how the star's success and dignified bearing inspired a generation of Jews to fight through the ethnic barriers in all fields.

80
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Aviva Kempner's warm and intelligent mash note to a man who clearly deserved it.
80
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
A portrait of a hero.

80
Film.com
Ernest Hardy
What director Aviva Kempner has done is shine a light into the past and recover a classic American hero, one with all the integrity, decency and largeness of spirit that we have been taught makes up the American character.

75
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Hits one out of the park.
75
Miami Herald
Curtis Morgan
If there's a flaw, it's that Kempner has fashioned more a hagiography than true biography.
70
Time
Richard Schickel
Sharing its subject's virtues, it is a lovely addition to the annals of the Greatest Generation.

70
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Kempner's lighthearted yet not apolitical collage conveys how Greenberg's success as an athlete in the 30s and 40s contradicted an ethnic stereotype.

70
LA Weekly
David Davis
Places Greenberg in historical context -- as a pioneering Jew and as an all-American sports hero.

63
San Francisco Examiner
Edvin Beitiks
Offers insights from a host of former players.
60
The New York Times
Lawrence Van Gelder
Simultaneously fascinating and vexing in ways that might tax informed devotees of both baseball and film.

60
TV Guide
Ken Fox
A fine, straightforward tribute to a sports giant who faced blatant prejudice and paved away for the likes Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron and other minorities who dared make a place for themselves as heroes of America's greatest pastime.

57
Mr. Showbiz
Michael Atkinson
Aviva Kempner's utterly conventional documentary plays like a lost chapter from Ken Burns' "Baseball."

50
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
In the absence of any greater cultural context, the ritual reiteration of Greenberg's greatness grows wearisome.


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