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Glory Road (Full Screen Edition)
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Item description for Glory Road (Full Screen Edition) by Disney...
The studio that brought you REMEMBER THE TITANS now delivers another winner with this exciting and inspirational true story of the team that changed college basketball -- and the nation -- forever! Josh Lucas (SWEET HOME ALABAMA) stars as future Hall of Fame coach Don Haskins of tiny Texas Western University, who bucks convention by simply starting the best players he can find: history's first all-African American lineup. In a turbulent time of social and political change, their unlikely success sends shock waves through the sport that follow the underdog Miners all the way to an epic showdown with all-white, #1 ranked Kentucky for the National Championship!
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One of the greatest basketball games in NCAA history is immortalized in Glory Road, an engaging sports movie that dramatizes a pivotal milestone in the racial integration of college athletics. While it may not be as rousing as similar movies like Hoosiers or Friday Night Lights, this fact-based drama gains depth and substance from the groundbreaking achievement of Don Haskins (well-played by Josh Lucas), who coached the 1965-66 team from Texas Western University to the NCAA championship, using the first-ever all-black lineup in the championship game and forever changing the rules of college basketball. Texas Western's underdog season is followed from anxious start to glorious finish, as Haskins recruits many of his black star players from the North, including Bobby Joe Hill (Derek Luke) and Willie Cager (Damaine Radcliff), and this typically wholesome Disney film doesn't flinch from the harsh realities of racial tension (including player beatings and vandalized motel rooms) that Texas Western's black players had to struggle against as their victories began to draw national attention. Jon Voight (under heavy makeup) makes a memorable cameo appearance as legendary Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp, whose favored all-white team was no match for Texas Western, and Haskins' unforgettable achievement is celebrated in an end-credits sequence that demonstrates the positive ripple-effect of his color-blind coaching. Glory Road relies a bit too heavily on sports-movie clichs, but its shortcomings are easily overlooked in favor of its greater historical significance. --Jeff Shannon
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Item Specifications...
Actors: Josh Lucas, Derek Luke, Austin Nichols, Jon Voight, Evan Jones
Directors: James Gartner
Writers: Bettina Gilois, Chris Cleveland
Producers: Andy Given, Chad Oman, Jerry Bruckheimer, Mike Stenson, Pat Sandston
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Language: English, French, Spanish
Subtitles: Spanish, French
Region Code: 1 (USA & Canada Only)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Running Time: 118.00 minutes
Record Label Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Format AC-3 / Color / Dolby / Dubbed / DVD
Dimensions: Length: 5.4" Width: 7.5" Height: 0.7"
Weight: 0.25 lbs.
Binding DVD Video
Release Date Jan 1, 2008
Publisher EMI- CMG DISTRIBUTION #36
ISBN 5558420855
ISBN13 9785558420852
UPC 786936292640
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Availability 82 units.
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Reviews - What do customers think about Glory Road (Full Screen Edition)?
 | A Must See Jan 19, 2008 |
| I just finished watching this movie on HBO, the second time I have seen it. This video is a must see, not just from the point of view of a good sports story but of American history. I remember the story well. I was a student at Duke University which lost by three points to UK when our best player was laid low with bronchitis. People forget what was going on in America and especially the American South at that time. Unfortunately many of these attidudes stil exist though they may not be as blantant as they were in 1966. Hopefully this movie will make some people uncomfortable. It should. Especially where the UK students are waving their rebel flags during the game. Despite the apologists, the waving of this flag was not, and still is not, a non-racist act. | | | | Highly recommend Jan 1, 2008 |
| Great movie. Even my wife who is not a big sports fan really liked it | | | | GLory Road, Dec 2, 2007 |
| this is a Christmas gift so though it looks good in its packaging, that is all I can say for now...... | | | | Great Famly Entertainment! Even for a UK family!! Sep 13, 2007 |
My dad would die if he knew I was writing this. As a die-hard Rupp fan whose garage has permanent trail-marks leading to UK during basketball and football seasons, he objected to the "over-done side of Rupp's racism exhibited in the movie". I found this out when I tried to convince him to see the movie. He refuses; however the rest of the folks in our family LOVE this movie. It is SO moving without being preachy or militant in any way. Bottom-line: things were how they were back then. No one can change that, but we sure can celebrate the people who overcame and triumphed in spite of the situations in which they found themselves. This movie immortalizes this team and it's coach in an exciting and touching way. Grab your kids and your parents, a bowl or popcorn and be prepared to shout for this team, no matter who you give your basketball season love to!!
ps: As my son attends UGA, I must also add GO DAWGS!! | | |  | Glorious Aug 31, 2007 |
| Disney has done a terrific job in bringing to the screen inspirational American sports stories of recent and not so recent memory and "Glory Road" is no exception. Here they tell the story of the Texas Western basketball team, the first with a substantial African American roster to not only make it to the NCAA tournament but to win the national championship despite the obvious obstacles thrown in front of them. I'm not a big basketball fan but this film had me in it's grip from start to finish. Josh Lucas is excellent as coach Don Haskins but the film wisely emphasizes the players because it is they who were the true pioneers. Next year Disney is releasing a film about Immaculata College's ladies basketball team from the early Seventies and I hope it's just remotely as good as "Glory Road". | | | Write your own review about Glory Road (Full Screen Edition)
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