A feel-good movie

Rating: 7/10 (26 August 2005)

The movie is about racial tension and how a sporting activity can make a difference to change attitudes. It's a movie about friendship, honesty and prejudice. A good movie with good acting performances. The movie is based on a true story where an African American coach is hired to lead a high school football team in a town in Virginia, USA, in the 60's where racial tension still existed. The racial differences accompanies the whole movie, and the audience can see how the friendship that emerges among the team members and their struggle for common goals (to win as a team) can diminish the racial tension among the team members and further on in the hole city. Although one should criticize that the team members become friends to quickly.