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Director: Gary Fleder
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From Time Out London
The sports-movie template is capable of absorbing any story and delivering the same uplift. Take Ernie Davis (Rob Brown), the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy, in 1961. Playing at a time when most college-football teams were lily-white, Davis (Rob Brown) faces open racism from opponents and subtler racism from his coach (Dennis Quaid). It’s a great story, but the movie has to bend a few things, not least when, fixated on the uplift, director Gary Fleder has to rush Davis’s ending – he died of leukemia before playing in the NFL.Author: Wally Hammond
Time Out London Issue 1998, Dec 4 - 10, 2008
Cast & crew
Director: Gary Fleder
Cast: Rob Brown, Dennis Quaid, Darrin Dewitt Henson, Omar Benson Miller, Nelsan Ellis, Charles S. Dutton, Aunjanue Ellis, Saul Rubinek full cast
Rated: 15
Duration: 129 mins
UK Release: Dec 5 2008
US Release: Oct 10 2008
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