Storyline
After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions.
Directors
Cast
Ethan Suplee, Afemo Omilami, Brett Rice, Tom Nowicki, Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Ryan Hurst, Wood Harris, Hayden Panettiere, Ryan Gosling, Nicole Ari Parker, Kate Bosworth, Donald Faison, Craig Kirkwood, Kip Pardue, Earl Poitier, Burgess Jenkins, Marion Guyot, Neal Ghant, David Jefferson, Preston Wigasi Brant, John Michael Weatherly, Gregory Alan Williams, Richard Fullerton, J. Don Ferguson, Krysten Leigh Jones, Andrew Masset, Tim Ware, Tom Turbiville, Jim Grimshaw, David Dwyer, Bo Keister, Lou Walker, Rhubarb Jones, Bob Neal, Dan Albright, Mike Pniewski, Sharon Blackwood, Paula Claire Jones, Kelly Cheston, Walker Jones, Ronald L. Conner, Courtney James Stewart, E.Y. Coley, John Wesley, B. Keith Harmon, Andy Francis, Stuart Greer, Derick Marshall, Kevin Dankosky, David Chandley, Scott Slade, Ric Reitz, Rory Griffin, Ryan Kowalske, Thomas Elliott, C. Stephen Browder, Jameel Jackson, Randy D. Patman Jr., Jemal L. Webb, Shawn Cummings, Michael Rouby, Ray Stoney, Shanda Lee Munson, David de Vries, Matt Adams, Ryan Duncan
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Reviews
80
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
Earns its emotional moments, and it takes the audience along.
75
Philadelphia Inquirer
A conventional, button-pushing but emotionally affecting tale.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
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.
63
Charlotte Observer
The script's hokiness flattens the performances.
