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.
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About the search for love and brilliant film ideas. A meta-film where fiction becomes reality.
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An underdog sports movie by the numbers.
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.
The team's accomplishments are here diluted into fodder for another of the producer's feel-good man-weepies.
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.
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