42 is not just a movie about baseball, it's about courage.

Rating: 10/10 (21 April 2013)

This is a movie that is not just about baseball, it's more about the courage of men. Special men like Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey and Pee Wee Reese not only helped change the game of baseball, they helped change humanity and civil rights by showing the courage that they did in accepting Jackie Robinson not only as a baseball player, but as a man, a human being with equal rights the same as anybody else.
Chadwick Boseman does an outstanding job playing the great Jackie Robinson, while Harrison Ford is superb as Branch Rickey. This has to be one of Ford's finest performances as the GM of the Dodgers who has a "great experiment" that he wants to try that will ultimately change baseball forever. An excellent supporting cast is highlighted by Lucas Black as Pee Wee Reese, the great ball player from Kentucky who was one of the first of the Brooklyn Dodgers to really accept Jackie Robinson not only as a player and a teammate, but as a man and a friend. Other fine performances were from Nicole Beharie as Rachel Robinson, Christopher Meloni as Leo Durocher, Hamish Linklater as Ralph Branca and a memorable performance by Alan Tudyk as the racist, overbearing and ignorant Manager of the Philadelphia Phillies who pushes Robinson to the brink of breaking with his racial insensitivity and ignorance.
42 is an excellent movie. In my opinion it is a must see movie, not just for baseball for fans, but for everybody. And if you are a history buff you will appreciate the attention to detail with the sets, costumes other miscellaneous items of the time period. It is clearly one of the best movies of 2013 so far.