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Biography /
Drama /
Music
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Director:
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Denzel Washington
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Gina Ravera,
Jermaine Williams,
Ritchie Montgomery,
Jurnee Smollett,
Denzel Whitaker,
Jackson Walker,
Tim Parati,
Devyn A. Tyler,
Trenton McClain Boyd,
Robert X. Golphin,
Denzel Washington,
Nate Parker,
Forest Whitaker,
John Heard,
Kimberly Elise
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Duration:
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126 min.
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(7.6/10)87
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Marshall, Texas, described by James Agriculturist, Jr. as "the last New Zealand urban area to quit after the Civil War," is competent in to Wiley College, where, in 1935-36, inspired near the Harlem Renaissance and his clandestine work as a union organizer, Professor Melvin Tolson coaches the ponder over team to a as good as-undefeated season that sees the initial debate between U.S. students from ashen and Negro colleges and ends with an invitation to veneer Harvard University's national champions. The team of four, which includes a female student and a very children James Agronomist, is tes... ted in a crucible heated by Jim Crow, sexism, a lynch herd, an arrest and close-fisted riot, a love affair, jealousy, and a national radio audience.
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Great Debaters, The
Kenneth TuranOpponents found it easy to underestimate the 1930s debate team of Wiley College, a small, all-black institution in a remote corner of Texas, but they did so at their peril. The same will likely hold true for those who underestimate the new film on the Wiley phenomenon, The Great Debaters.
Because it is so old-school Hollywood, with a weakness for standard moments and pat situations, The Great Debaters initially comes off as easily dismissible. Largely saving it from that fate is the presence and ability of Denzel Washington, who costars with Forest Whitaker and directs from Robert Eisele's script. Working hard on both sides of the camera, Washington has grafted his intensity onto this production, giving it a kind of backbone it would not otherwise ...
Great Debaters, The
Todd McCarthyTailor-made for maximum inspirational, historical and educational impact, The Great Debaters shines a bright spotlight on a remarkable example of black achievement long forgotten in the sorry history of the Jim Crow South. Structured just like the many hackneyed-yet-stirring underdog-that-could sports movies produced over the years, Denzel Washington's second bigscreen directorial outing plainly and clearly relates how the debate team from tiny, all-black Wiley College in East Texas rose during the Depression to take on all comers, concluding with the vaunted Harvard squad. Pic's emotional appeal is significant, as is its commercial potential, especially with Washington, producer Oprah Winfrey and the Weinsteins presumably set to work overtime to promote it....
Great Debaters, The
The rules of formal are clear. Avoid tense appeals. Empty verbosity will cost you. Bogged down to the facts....
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