Get your feel good fix

Rating: 7/10 (1 October 2000)

In 1970 (as a complete Yankee outsider) I officiated high school football games in South Carolina. I went to little hamlets all over the state and was part of the ritual that was (probably still is) high school football in the South. REMEMBER THE TITANS did a credible job of bringing back much of that.
(Old Official's quibble - Don't know if it is allowed now, but at that time in high school football a player could not advance a fumble. That was one of the differences between the high school and the professional rules.)
Football was an equalizer that literally allowed black students to compete on an equal playing field with white players. That was good for both, something that comes through pretty well in the movie.
Overall, the movie is schmaltzy with more feel good thrown in than one encounters in real life. (Especially noteworthy is the score that crescendoes at moving moments for those too dense in the audience to get it on their own.) Nonetheless, sometimes I go to the movies to get more feel good inspiration than I encounter in the real world. REMEMBER THE TITANS isn't a bad way to fill up on warm, fuzzy feelings.