Storyline
Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.
Directors
Cast
Matt Damon, Scott Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Julian Lewis Jones, Johnny Cicco, Henie Bosman, Susan Danford, Robert Hobbs, Louis Minnaar, Matt Stern, David Dukas, Daniel Hadebe, Tony Kgoroge, Patrick Mofokeng, Adjoa Andoh, Marguerite Wheatley, Leleti Khumalo, Patrick Lyster, Langley Kirkwood, Bonnie Henna, Danny Keogh, Robin Smith, Dan Robbertse, Penny Downie, Grant Swanby, Vuyo Dabula, Jakkie Groenewald, Albert Maritz, Sello Motloung, Meren Reddy, Lida Botha, Sylvia Mngxekeza, Bart Fouche, Ashley Taylor, Nambitha Mpumlwana, André Jacobs, Mark Rickard, Grant Roberts, Bjorn Steinbach, Sivuyile Ngesi, Mike Falkow, Stelio Savante, Sean Cameron Michael, Patrick John Walton, Matthew Dylan Roberts, Michael Ledwidge
Trailer
Reviews
88
Clint Eastwood, a master director, orchestrates all of these notes and has us loving Mandela, proud of Francois and cheering for the plucky Springboks. A great entertainment. Not, as I said, the Mandela biopic I would have expected.
83
How is Invictus as a sports movie? Let's just say that its lump-in-the-throat climax is predictable, but that doesn't mean it's less than earned.
80
Damon, beefed up for the occasion, makes Pienaar a stalwart yet courtly figure. Freeman infuses Mandela's speeches with the same gentleness and gravity he's brought to his numerous God roles and the Visa Olympics commercials. But the real deity here is Eastwood, still chugging away handsomely in his 80th year.
80
Variety
Inspirational on the face of it, Clint Eastwood's film has a predictable trajectory, but every scene brims with surprising details that accumulate into a rich fabric of history, cultural impressions and emotion.
75
Eastwood has crafted something that works both as a sports drama and as an examination of the birth pains of the racially unified South Africa.
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