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| Glory Road (Widescreen Edition) | 
 enlarge | Director: James Gartner
Actors: Josh Lucas, Derek Luke, Austin Nichols, Jon Voight, Evan Jones
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  81 reviews
Sales Rank: 5572
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 118
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 4096803
UPC: 786936292626
EAN: 0786936292626
ASIN: B000EXZFCQ
Theatrical Release Date: January 13, 2006
Release Date: June 6, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Plays Great - Comes with Artwork and Case - Free First Class Upgrade!! Previous Rental, DVD has minor scratches that do not affect play.
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One of the greatest basketball games in NCAA history is immortalized in Glory Road, an engaging sports movie that dramatizes a pivotal milestone in the racial integration of college athletics. While it may not be as rousing as similar movies like Hoosiers or Friday Night Lights, this fact-based drama gains depth and substance from the groundbreaking achievement of Don Haskins (well-played by Josh Lucas), who coached the 1965-66 team from Texas Western University to the NCAA championship, using the first-ever all-black lineup in the championship game and forever changing the rules of college basketball. Texas Western's underdog season is followed from anxious start to glorious finish, as Haskins recruits many of his black star players from the North, including Bobby Joe Hill (Derek Luke) and Willie Cager (Damaine Radcliff), and this typically wholesome Disney film doesn't flinch from the harsh realities of racial tension (including player beatings and vandalized motel rooms) that Texas Western's black players had to struggle against as their victories began to draw national attention. Jon Voight (under heavy makeup) makes a memorable cameo appearance as legendary Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp, whose favored all-white team was no match for Texas Western, and Haskins' unforgettable achievement is celebrated in an end-credits sequence that demonstrates the positive ripple-effect of his color-blind coaching. Glory Road relies a bit too heavily on sports-movie cliches, but its shortcomings are easily overlooked in favor of its greater historical significance. --Jeff Shannon
Product Description
The studio that brought you REMEMBER THE TITANS now delivers another winner with this exciting and inspirational true story of the team that changed college basketball -- and the nation -- forever! Josh Lucas (SWEET HOME ALABAMA) stars as future Hall of Fame coach Don Haskins of tiny Texas Western University who bucks convention by simply starting the best players he can find: history's first all-African American lineup. In a turbulent time of social and political change their unlikely success sends shock waves through the sport that follow the underdog Miners all the way to an epic showdown with all-white #1 ranked Kentucky for the National Championship!Bonus Features:1. Deleted Scenes2. Music Video By Alicia Keys3. Jerry Bruckheimer And Director James Gartner Commentary4. Screenwriter Commentary5. Extended Interviews With Real UTEP Players6. Surviving Practice: Coach Haskins' Practice Schedule With Commentary By NBA Star Tim Hardaway7. More Than A Game: Legacy Of The Bear -- Highlights Of Coach Haskins' Career With Commentary By Don Haskins And Pat RileySystem Requirements:Running Time 118 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG UPC: 786936292626 Manufacturer No: 4096803
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 Excellent!!!! April 15, 2008
This is one of the best movies I've seen. It brought out the issue of race back in the 60s without being graphic. Very well done.
Superb Acting, Great Movie!!! March 30, 2008
This movie was fantastic, Josh Lucas was great. I had so much fun watching this and it was about so much more than just a basketball team winning in the NCAA. It was about the 60's, racism, and getting past all of that. What is so sad, is our world has not changed much since then. More people need to see this film and ask themselves what they are still doing living in the past with their racial issues and tensions. We are all equal! Let's have fun and enjoy this life together!!
 Entertaining, But horribly inaccurate March 6, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I find it difficult to believe anybody gave this movie 5 stars "despite the artistic license". This movie made a joke of the story of this team.
Because of this movie, people are given the impression that 5 black freshmen recruited by Coach Don Haskins started in the NCAA Championship game, which amazed sportswriters so much that they were made heavy underdogs because of the prevailing racism of the times. I'd like to point out some facts some people might not know.
While I'm sure racism played a factor in real life to some oddsmakers, it had little to do with most people picking Kentucky, the #1 team in the nation at 23-0 and a 4-time National Champion, to beat a team that had never been to a Final Four.
In the 1950s, prior to Haskins' arrival, Texas Western recruited and played African American players, in a time when it was still common to find all-white college sports teams, particularly in the South When Haskins arrived in El Paso, he inherited three black players from his coaching predecessor, including Nolan Richardson, the long-time coach of Arkansas.
In the 1960's FRESHMEN COULDN'T PLAY VARSITY COLLEGE BASKETBALL. All the starters for Texas Western were upperclassmen.
Texas Western didn't "sneak up" on anybody. They had been to the NCAA Tournament in 1963 and 1964.
I wish Disney had tried to keep the facts straight. Artistic license is one thing, but re-writing history to make the story seen the way you want it is ridiculous.
Texas Cinderella Story with Hoops March 2, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Josh Lucas (Paul Newman's long lost and generations younger twin) plays a lengendary Texan basketball coach who broke the color barrier with a win over Kentucky at the 1966 NCAA championship play off. An inspirational tale of courage, boldness, and making a statement on and off court.
A Must See January 19, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I just finished watching this movie on HBO, the second time I have seen it. This video is a must see, not just from the point of view of a good sports story but of American history. I remember the story well. I was a student at Duke University which lost by three points to UK when our best player was laid low with bronchitis. People forget what was going on in America and especially the American South at that time. Unfortunately many of these attidudes stil exist though they may not be as blantant as they were in 1966. Hopefully this movie will make some people uncomfortable. It should. Especially where the UK students are waving their rebel flags during the game. Despite the apologists, the waving of this flag was not, and still is not, a non-racist act.
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