Maybe tomorrow, we'll all wear 42, so nobody could tell us apart.

Rating: 8/10 (19 December 2013)

In 1945, the Brooklyn Dodgers' General Manager, Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford), decides that it is time to integrate the game. This film is as much about him as it is Jackie Robinson.
It's also about America in 1945. This was three years before Truman integrated the military. In 1946, at least six African Americans were lynched in the South. It was not a time for new ideas, but here it it full in our face.
After a national search, Rickey discovers Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman). On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson took the field at Ebbets Field as the first African American major league baseball player.
It is an uplifting tale of courage and determination that is hard to resist, even though you know the outcome before the movie begins.