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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | James Gartner |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 13 January, 2006 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Buena Vista Home Entertainment |
| MPAA RATING: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| FEATURES: | AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC, Classic DVD, Exclusive interviews, highlights, and behind the scenes coverage, DVD's main menu allow you to jump directly to the action, Presented in full-screen digital video |
| TYPE: | Action, Action / Adventure, Adult Language, Adult Situations, Adventure, Basketball Players, Color, Confrontational, Docudrama, Drama, Earnest, English, Feature, Feature Film Drama, Feature Film-drama, Movie, Poignant, Race Relations, Rousing, Sentimental |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 786936292640 |
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A very fine historic sports movie
Glory Road is the true story of Texas college basketball coach Dan Haskins.
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>In 1965, white players dominated college basketball and a predominantly black team was just not even thought of, especially in Klan infested Southern states.
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>The coach assists his Texas-Western players in breaking down race relation obstacles still grasping the nation and even more brazenly evident in violent Jim Crow South.
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>Coach Haskins drives all his players, both on the court, and demands more then passing academic grades in the classroom as well.
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>Classic Soul and R & B music of the mid-1960's era play a key part through out this well made picture.
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>"The incredible story of the team that changed the game forever / Based on a true story"
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A Fitting Tribute to Legendary NCAA Basketball Coach Don Haskins
The year was 1966. Then President Lyndon B. Johnson, only one year before, had signed into the law the Civil Rights Act; President Johnson sent more American troops to South Vietnam; the Soviet space craft Venera 3 became the first man-made object to land on another planet; and in March of that year, a monumental event occurred within U.S. collegiate sports thanks to the abilities of the basketball coach Don Haskins. The late 1960's were a tumultuous period in U.S. history due the number of changes that were occurring in society. Most notably, the Civil Rights movement as lead by Martin Luther King, Jr., which lead the U.S. Congress and President Johnson passing the Civil Rights Act and end segregation. Up until that time, southern colleges and universities were highly segregated, especially their sports teams. So, when the little known university named "Texas Western College" in El Paso, Texas hired a new basketball coach to help their ailing team (the Miners), they didn't know what they were getting themselves into as the man they hired, Don Haskins, was more interested in an individual's athletic abilities than the color of his/her skin. As shown in the 2006 film "Glory Road", after Don Haskins (played by Josh Lucas) began to recruit African-American basketball players for the university's basketball team, not everyone was happy; but as the team began to repeatedly win against teams from other universities that were mostly (if not completely) Caucasian, both the university and the residents of El Paso cheered for their mostly African-American team. The team's success under Don Haskins allowed the Texas Western College Miner basketball team to then be included in the prestigious NCAA Basketball Tournament, where it's abilities took them all the way to the final game with the predominantly Caucasian team from the University of Kentucky Wildcats, whose head coach was the legendary Adolph Rupp (played by Jon Voight).
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>With a brilliantly written screenplay (thanks to the writers Chris Cleveland and Bettina Gilois), great direction (thanks to director James Gartner and superb acting, "Glory Road" is a truly wonderful film and a fitting tribute to the real coach Don Haskins. Other notable characters in the film include the 1966 Texas Western College College basketball players, which included Bobby Joe Hill (Derek Luke), Willie 'Scoops' Cager (Damaine Radcliff), Willie Worsley (Sam Jones III), David Lattin (Schin A.S. Kerr), Jerry Armstrong (Austin Nichols), Orsten Artis (Alphonso McAuley), Nevil Shed (Al Shearer), Harry Flournoy (Mehcad Brooks) and David Palacio (Alejandro D. Hernandez). Other notable characters in the film include Don Haskin's wife Mary Haskins (Emily Deschanel), Harry Flournoy's mother (Elizabeth Omilami) and Jerry Armstrong's father (Graham Timbes). Though the film received no Oscar nominations, it did win the "Best Sports Movie" from the ESPY Awards (Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Awards). My overall rating for the film is 5 out of 5 stars and highly recommend it. Today, at the University of Texas at El Paso (the former Texas Western College), the main basketball sports arena is named the "Don Haskins Center" and can seat 12,000. Thanks to the real Don Haskins, the doors to collegiate sports were opened to everyone regardless of the color of one's skin.
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