One of the best baseball movies ever made

Rating: 10/10 (24 June 2014)

Brian Helgeland's 42 is not only about a black man who overcame racism just so he can make it to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, it is the true life story of Jackie Robinson (played by Chadwick Boseman)and Branch Rickey (played by Harrison Ford) who supported him the whole way through. I was disappointed to find out that this film didn't garner any Oscar nominations when it had all of the ingredients to an Oscar fora baseball movie. Director Brian Helgeland has crafted the best baseball movie since Sam Wood's 1942 baseball biopic about the life of Lou Gehrig The Pride of the Yankees. I really think that this is one of the best movies of 2013 because of the inspiration and the message that the film tries to send to us and that no matter what skin color you have all men will always be equal no matter what the difference.