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Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, The

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Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, The reviews
75
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Documentary

Written by: Aviva Kempner

Directed by: Aviva Kempner

Release Date:
Theatrical: February 18, 2000
DVD: October 16, 2001

Running Time: 90 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

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)

What The Critics Said

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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.

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90

Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky

Engaging and revelatory, turning forgotten footnotes and discarded minutiae into the stuff of riveting drama and poignant laughs.

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89

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

Kempner's documentary is a streamlined, gorgeous piece of work, full of revelations of time, place, and person.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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70

LA Weekly David Davis

Places Greenberg in historical context -- as a pioneering Jew and as an all-American sports hero.

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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.

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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.

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57

Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson

Aviva Kempner's utterly conventional documentary plays like a lost chapter from Ken Burns' "Baseball."

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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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