Glory Road (2006)

Release date: 2006-01-13
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: James Gartner
Production Co: Walt Disney Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Texas Western Productions
Genre: Biography, Drama
Rating: 7.2/10
Length: 1h 58min

Storyline

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.

Plot Keywords

based on true story, bus, discipline, mother, punishment, respect, single mother, teamwork, threat, sports team, race relations, underdog, year 1966, teenage boy, blood, basketball game, 1960s, el paso texas, marriage, maryland

Short Review

First-time director James Gartner observes all the rituals--the coach busting chops, the team sneaking out to party--but the players are indifferently characterized and the civil rights story has a fake Black History Month feel.