The Express (15)
Time Out rating:
<strong>Rating: </strong>3/5
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Time Out says
Tue Dec 2 2008
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
Release details
Rated:
15
UK release:
Fri Dec 5 2008
Duration:
129 mins
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Cast:
Saul Rubinek, Aunjanue Ellis, Charles S. Dutton, Nelsan Ellis, Omar Benson Miller, Darrin Dewitt Henson, Dennis Quaid, Rob Brown
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