A great movie for athletes and coaches of the game

Rating: Null/10 (16 January 2006)

This movie is just good. If you are an athlete, especially a basketball player, you can totally relate to the mentality of the athletes in the movie. However, to top that off you have great basketball sequences, sequences that are just hilarious, and some of what I would call a kind of "pun". It's a good anti-racism movie as well, because it shows the lengths that some jealous people were willing to go to to prevent five great players from proving that they can make it at the national level simply because they were of African-American descent. From what I've read here, some of the scenes aren't so factual but I am definitely going to read the book so from there I will straighten things out. I do know that there were death threats to some of the players and the coach, and hatred from peers at Texas Western. That's all I know, but I also know that I was truly moved by the outcome of the movie, as well as the personal dynamics within the team and some other people close to the situation and how they changed throughout the course of the movie. Definitely worthwhile.