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Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, The
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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)
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What The Critics Said
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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.
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
A sprightly, lovingly researched, rather misty-eyed sports documentary that's steeped in ethnic pride.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky
Engaging and revelatory, turning forgotten footnotes and discarded minutiae into the stuff of riveting drama and poignant laughs.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Kempner's documentary is a streamlined, gorgeous piece of work, full of revelations of time, place, and person.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Filled with delightful sequences.
Philadelphia Inquirer Desmond Ryan
Scrupulously made and deeply affectionate.
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.
Read Full Review >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.
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.
Boston Globe Jay Carr
While it preserves his baseball feats, it looks beyond them to clarify Greenberg's place in American culture.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Aviva Kempner's warm and intelligent mash note to a man who clearly deserved it.
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.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Hits one out of the park.
Miami Herald Curtis Morgan
If there's a flaw, it's that Kempner has fashioned more a hagiography than true biography.
Time Richard Schickel
Sharing its subject's virtues, it is a lovely addition to the annals of the Greatest Generation.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly David Davis
Places Greenberg in historical context -- as a pioneering Jew and as an all-American sports hero.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Examiner Edvin Beitiks
Offers insights from a host of former players.
The New York Times Lawrence Van Gelder
Simultaneously fascinating and vexing in ways that might tax informed devotees of both baseball and film.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson
Aviva Kempner's utterly conventional documentary plays like a lost chapter from Ken Burns' "Baseball."
Read Full Review >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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