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Remember the Titans
Buena Vista Pictures
MPAA RATING: PG for thematic elements and some language
Starring
Denzel Washington,
Scott Miles,
Will Patton,
and
Donald Adeosun Faison
In 1971 high school football was everything to the people of Alexandria, Virginia. But when the local school board was forced to integrate an all black school with an all white school, the very foundation of football's great tradition was put to the test. (Walt Disney Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Gregory Allen Howard
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Boaz Yakin
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 20, 2001
Video: March 20, 2001
Theatrical: September 29, 2000
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| RUNNING TIME: |
113 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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88
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Works better and cuts deeper than the mostly fictionalized "Hoosiers."

88
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A civics lesson about integration very artfully - and entertainingly - disguised as an upbeat family sports movie.

80
Film.com
Tom Keogh
A huge surprise: a startlingly resonant yet unabashedly entertaining slice of American history, a popcorn movie with complex observations about, of all things, racism.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Earns its emotional moments, and it takes the audience along.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
A conventional, button-pushing but emotionally affecting tale.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Has the outer form of a brave statement about the races in America, but the soul of a sports movie in which everything is settled by the obligatory last play in the last seconds of the championship game.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
It has a good heart, though, and makes an amiable introduction to the integration battles of the '60s and '70s.

75
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Lively and inspirational, with terrific performances from a big star and a host of supporting players.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
It really does communicate an optimistic sense that race is irrelevant and we can all live happily ever after together.

75
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Washington and the others score in this predictable but rousing film where the big victory is over attitudes.

75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Only a very stony heart could resist its pull.

75
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, in an atypically high-minded and low-budget frame of mind, manages to breeze through most of the gridiron genre's obstacles with his admirable, crowd-pleasing Titans.

75
Mr. Showbiz
Larry Terenzi
Ultimately nothing more than a live-action cartoon. A high-minded, inspiring cartoon, but a cartoon nonetheless.

63
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
A proudly unsophisticated demonstration of racial progress.

63
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
The script's hokiness flattens the performances.

50
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A shrewd, pulpy crowd-pleaser.

50
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Herman Boone was no doubt a terrific football coach, but the lessons to be drawn from his success in Alexandria are ambiguous, and Remember the Titans is too wrapped up in its weepy macho sentimentality to address them clearly.

50
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Denzel Washington, by now, could do this sort of role in his sleep.

50
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
If Remember the Titans is corny, it's unabashedly, even generously so.

50
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Earnest and well-intentioned.

50
TNT RoughCut
Susannah Breslin
Perfectly effective when judged on its own merits, but is that really enough anymore?

50
TV Guide
Steve Simels
This mix of sweat and uplift in the Civil Rights era doesn't quite come off, despite some strong performances and the fact that it's based on a genuinely inspirational true story.

50
Chicago Reader
Michael Miner
The leads, Denzel Washington and particularly Will Patton, are so good they occasionally make you forget the material is shameless.

40
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Falls short of both the social history lesson it so pointedly strives to impart and the sport it so roughly embraces.

40
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Distressingly shallow.
38
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
History as filtered through the faux-liberal prism of Hollywood's dream factory, and an insult, I believe, to the people who actually carried the fight and endured the pain for civil rights.

30
Film.com
Peter Brunette
Simplistic and non-controversial, and thus is virtually guaranteed commercial success.

30
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
Bruckheimer's latest is in some crucial respects worse than those earlier blockbuster bids ("Gone in 60 Seconds" and "Coyote Ugly") -- certainly it's more fraudulent -- because unlike those films, which don't claim to be about anything other than thrills and tits, Remember the Titans means to be about race.

30
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
Its heart is in the right place, but it has no soul.

20
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
A feel-good movie only in the sense that it wants to reassure today's white people about our own enlightenment and how far we've come in the evolution of our attitudes about race.

10
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
So smug and so proud of itself, and you can tell that everybody involved conceives of it as a civics lesson instead of a story, that they squeeze all the life out of it.

10
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
Boorish and flatulent.


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