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Title: Glory Road (2006)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Josh Lucas | ... | Don Haskins | |
| Derek Luke | ... | Bobby Joe Hill | |
| Austin Nichols | ... | Jerry Armstrong | |
| Jon Voight | ... | Adolph Rupp | |
| Evan Jones | ... | Moe Iba | |
| Schin A.S. Kerr | ... | David Lattin | |
| Alphonso McAuley | ... | Orsten Artis | |
| Mehcad Brooks | ... | Harry Flournoy | |
| Sam Jones III | ... | Willie Worsley | |
| Damaine Radcliff | ... | Willie 'Scoops' Cager | |
| Emily Deschanel | ... | Mary Haskins | |
| Al Shearer | ... | Nevil Shed | |
| Red West | ... | Ross Moore | |
| Kip Weeks | ... | Togo Railey | |
| Mitch Eakins | ... | Dick Myers | |
In 1965, the coach of the high school girl basketball team Don Haskins is invited by the Texas Western Miners to be their coach. Despite the lack of budget, Haskins sees the chance to dispute the NCAA and moves with his wife and children to the college dormitory. He recruits seven talented and rejected black players to play with five Caucasian players and formed a legendary team that won the 1966 national championship against the powerful Kentucky. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
In 1966, a coach of a girl's basketball team comes to Texas Western College and recruits seven black players to lead them to the top.
Right from the trailers and the posters, you probably know how "Glory Road" is gonna go: an underdog NCAA basketball team must face great odds to win the championship. It's a sports movie based from true events (read: based) with a Hollywood tag plastered over its forehead that features reluctant heroes overcoming their problems and giving it all for the game. Nonetheless, the movie achieves more than that.
While this Jerry Bruckheimer-produced Disney movie plot is typical (remember the Titans?), the underlying socio-political theme effectively presents the ills of racism - a problem with no easy way out of (ask Paul Haggis). The key characters of the game are dealing with discrimination and the only way they can get back is to win. Of course, a little research told me that some of the details about the real events were changed for cinematic purposes. It's completely fine by me as long as the end product justifies the means. And boy it does. The performances are also good. Josh Lucas gives a terrific performance as Don Haskins, the head coach of the team that featured the first all-black starting lineup in US NCAA history.
"Glory Road" is a formulaic yet an enjoyable film. It's a movie that gives itself away as soon as one character says "I want to play, Coach!" Still it has charm and excitement that comes from seeing it for what it is. It's predictable, yeah, but it's not much different from seeing a replay of a game where your favorite team won.