Rotten
Maybe it's all true. But one is always a little discomfited when life, or a movie, imitates weary melodramatic patterns this slavishly.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Remember the Titans
History is written by the winners.
2000 · 1h 53m · PG
Drama
Directed by
Boaz Yakin
Overview
After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions.
Director and cast
- Boaz Yakin Director
- Denzel Washington as Herman Boone
- Will Patton as Bill Yoast
- Ryan Hurst as Gerry Bertier
- Wood Harris as Julius Campbell
- Hayden Panettiere as Sheryl Yoast
- Donald Faison as Petey Jones
- Ryan Gosling as Alan Bosley
- Craig Kirkwood as Jerry 'Rev' Harris
- Ethan Suplee Cast
- Kip Pardue Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
73%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The emphasis on the players' developing mutual trust, is absorbing to watch and cleanly directed.
Trevor Johnston, Time Out
Rotten
The result is the sort of deeply massaged truth that isn't stranger than fiction -- it's worse than fiction.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Rotten
When the hard battle for integration is served up as a feel-good package, we've all been bamboozled.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Fresh
Sturdy, gripping and well-balanced if somewhat artificial.
Susan Stark, Detroit News
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