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Glory Road

The incredible story of the team that changed the game forever.

2006 · 1h 58m · PG Drama, History
Directed by James Gartner

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In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.

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Rotten

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.

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Rotten

An underdog sports movie by the numbers.

Scott Tobias, AV Club
Fresh

Glory Road is a rousing and worthy tribute to one of the most important college basketball teams and one of the most important championship games of all time.

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten

The team's accomplishments are here diluted into fodder for another of the producer's feel-good man-weepies.

Matt Singer, Village Voice
Fresh

An appealing Disney sports movie that underplays its potential, Glory Road is at least a more satisfying basketball saga than last year's Coach Carter.

Mike Clark, USA Today

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