Remember the Titans

Plot synopsis:
In 1971, at the desegregated T. C. Williams High School, a black head coach, Herman Boone, is hired to lead the school's football team. Boone is assigned to the coaching team under current coach Bill Yoast, nominated for the Virginia High School Hall of Fame. But, in an attempt to placate rising racial tensions and the fact that all other high schools are "white" only, Boone is assigned the head coach job. At first, he refuses as he thinks it is extremely unfair to Yoast, but accepts when he sees what it means to the black community. Yoast is then offered an assistant coach's job by the school board and initially refuses, but reconsiders after the white players pledge to boycott the team if he does not participate. Dismayed at the prospect of the students losing their chances at scholarships, Yoast changes his mind and takes up the position of defensive coordinator under Boone.
The black students have a meeting in the gymnasium in auditioning to play for the team until Boone arrives, but the meeting turns into a fiasco when Yoast and white students interrupt. On August 15, 1971, the players gather and journey to Gettysburg College, where their training camp takes place. As their days of training camp progress, black and white football team members frequently clash in racially motivated conflicts, including some between captain Gerry Bertier, and Julius Campbell. But after forceful coaching and rigorous athletic training by Boone, which includes an early morning run to the Gettysburg cemetery, and a motivational speech, the team achieves racial harmony and success. After returning from football camp, Boone is told by a member of the school board that if he loses even a single game, he will be dismissed. Subsequently, the Titans go through the season undefeated while battling racial prejudice, before slowly gaining support from the community. Gerry has his best friend Ray removed from the team because of his racism.
Just before the state semi-finals, Yoast is told by the chairman of the school board that he will be inducted into the Hall of Fame after the Titans lose one game, implying he wants Boone to be dismissed over his race. During the game, it becomes apparent that the referees are biased against the Titans. Upon seeing the chairman and other board members in the audience looking on with satisfaction, Yoast realizes they've rigged the game and warns the head official that he will go to the press and expose the scandal unless the game is officiated fairly. The Titans nonetheless win, but Yoast is told by the chairman that his actions have resulted in his loss of candidacy for induction.
While celebrating the victory, Bertier is severely injured in an car accident with a truck after driving through an intersection. Although Bertier is unable to play due to being paralyzed from the waist down, the team goes on to win the state championship. Bertier would remain a paraplegic for the rest of his life. Ten years later, Bertier dies in another automobile accident by a drunk driver, after winning the gold medal in shot put in the Paralympics. His family, coaches, and other former teammates reunite to attend his funeral.
In the epilogue, descriptions show about the players and coaches activities after the events in 1971.

Tags: dramatic, inspiring, feel-good

Review:
Remember the Titans is much more than a story about a high school football team.
In 1971 the high schools are integrated and Coach Boone is chosen to become the head coach of the football team while Coach Yoast is demoted to assistant coach.Remember the Titans is a powerful film with incredible performances by both Denzel Washington and Will Patton..
"Remember The Titans" is one of the two best films to have a chance to win an oscar for best picture.Denzel Washington leads a cast that is young, fresh, talented and determined to make this movie a success.
"Remember The Titans" is laced with strong performances from Will Patton, Ryan Hurst, Wood Harris, Donald Faison and Greg Alan Williams.Based on a true story "Remember The Titans" follows the 1971 T.C. Williams High School Titans football team and their struggles with integration.
However, the strength and real beauty of "Remember The Titans" does not come from Washington or Patton, but the Titan football players because they are the ones who give the strongest performances in the film.I must say that the best performance of the whole movie other than Washington and Patton is the young actress who portrayed Bill Yoast's daughter, Hayden Panitierre.
Being a former white athlete and coach I am sick of sports movies where the story involves a team eventually winning a championship so I passed this one by when it first came out.
Denzel Washington, as the coach, gave another of his consistently outstanding performances.Like "Hoosiers" this is a true story and it is not just a story about sports but a strong story about race.
Instead we scheduled one black college and several state universities in the mid-west.Some critics have compared the summer camp at which Washington as Coach Boone brought the blacks and whites together as a team as like a Marine Boot Camp but everyone missed the subtlety of this.
Even though the movie has a few corny moments and the actors playing the roles as football players look old for high school, these faults are minimal and do not detract from the power of the film..
I am emotionally affected by this film no matter how many times I've seen it, and I think that this movie will stand up over time as one of the most endearing sports classics of all time.Quote that i believe defines the movie: "I don't care if you like each other, but you will respect each other.
"Remember the Titans" is a movie that by the end of seeing it makes you feel good.
"Remember the Titans" is a comedy-drama based on the true story of a high school in Virginia that is integrated with white and black students, white and black teachers, and white and black athletic coaches.
Oscar winner Denzel Washington gives another one of his fine performances as the new head coach of the high school football team, and Will Patton is equally good as the current head coach who is now demoted to assistant coach under Washington.
SPOILER: Based on real events in 1971, where T.C. Williams High School, a now hot bed integrated school, becomes a beacon of unification via their mixed race football team.As is normally the case with films of this ilk, it quickly comes to pass that certain artistic licence has been taken with the truth.
It's hoped that this film also prompts newcomers to research further the topics within the story.The cast list is impressive, Denzel Washington and Will Patton find instant chemistry as the head coaches thrust together by outside influences, with both guys beautifully doing credit to the real life friendship that would be born from the situation.
Though not primarily offering up anything new in the pantheon of race and sport related movies, Remember The Titans does have so much good going for it.
He replaces a famed coach(Will Patton)and gets a chance job coaching a town(Alexandria,Virginia)High school football team constituted by diverse characters(Ryan Hurst,Donald Faison,Suplee,Kip Pardue,Ryan Gosling,among others) and face the dual challenge of bringing the team to the state championship and redeeming themselves my means of breaking racial barriers.The coach makes the team,and each person in it,better than they thought possible.This enjoyable tale with classic plot deals about a slice of American history, and is plenty of good feeling,heartfelt,interesting characters and formidable performances.However,sometimes is some sentimental and predictable but is still pretty entertaining.Exceptional Denzel Washington with a first rate acting reaching an important milestone and terrific Will Patton in the role of assistant,they are backed by a phenomenal support cast formed by young actors with future and wide career,as a little girl fine performed by Hayden Panettiere,today well known by ¨Heroes¨.Spectacular and sensible musical score by Trevor Ravin and colorful cinematography by Philippe Rousselot.The story follows the wake of previous sports hits films,like are ¨Rudy and Hoosiers(David Anspaugh)¨.The motion picture is well directed by Boaz Yakin,he's a noted writer(Rookie,Punisher),producer(Hostel I,II) and director(Fresh,Uptown girls).Rating : Better than average,worthwhile seeing..
"Remember the Titans" tells about a black football coach (Washington) who transfers to an integrated high school where he's faced with turning black and white prejudices into teamwork and winning the state championship with a racially mixed team in a racially divided society.
And the players and the game scenes are believable (although I am getting tired of every hit on the field sounding like a Buick hitting a concrete wall--this is happening in most football movies).
The true story of the integration of a Virginia high school football team and the warm multicultural relationships which developed among the team members, staff and families, the film reminds us once again when working together in a common effort, one can find love and friendship in the most unlikely places.
So that didn't do it for me, but what made me decide to watch it was the fact that Denzel Washington played an important role in it.He's coach Herman Boone, a newly appointed African-American football coach who will have to lead a high school football team in Virginia, during the early 70's.
But when the captain of the team gets injured in a car accident, just before the state championship, they will have to prove that they can adapt and that they still can win the match...True stories have always been a great source of inspiration for Hollywood, but personally I can't name too many of these movies that I really liked.
He can't fake agility, coordination, a comfortable running style, a natural throwing motion or catching form; he must demonstrate skills beyond his acting.Remember The Titans moved and inspired me (despite a few scenes and some dialog that sort of manipulate a viewer's feelings) partly because the young men playing members of that football team not only swaggered, jostled, bantered, and jived like high school athletes, they also played like them.
Denzel Washington did a commendable job as Herman Boone, the demanding, domineering, yet fair head football coach, and Will Patton did tremendous work as the demoted head coach Bill Yoast, the mentor with the softer approach and rather folksy style, who must deal with the immaturity of his bigoted friends as well as his tendency to patronize the African American members of the team..
Herman Boone (Denzel Washington) is a successful football coach who gets assigned to lead the merged high school football team.
The higher ups involved had better hope there is no God or surely there judgment will be great, prehaps they'll even be forced to watch this film.If you come upon some individual whether it be a friend or neighbor, co-worker or boss, relative or stranger, big or small, black or white, and in the course of your discussions this film comes up and by some reason they should bring up this film and mention something the least bit positive about it berate them immediately and forcefully, show absolutely no mercy as they deserve none.
Now, lets start from the beginning, another film about interracial, or prejudicial/bigotry issues between players on a team (played out to death in modern American movies).
And the part about this I like the best is that I have shown this film to teens and those who hate football still have loved the movie.
i like the fact that the coach re-united the team with African Americans and white men but at least they should had put Mexicans too.I really enjoy this movie i really hope that everyone would have a chance to see this movie because is wonderful..
Tension between blacks and whites is at its highest in Alexandria when the high school becomes integrated and Coach Boone (Denzel Washington) is hired as the head coach of the high school football team and he replaces, now assistant head coach, Coach Yoast (Will Patton).
Boaz Yakin presents the dialogue and setting of this film in a way that makes you feel like you were watching a movie developed in the 1970's.
The direction is pretty good too and the script/dialog is witty and compelling, but the strongest aspects would have to go the football sequences and the sweeping music score from Trevor Rabin with it's epic moments that could easily make you teary-eyed.Overall, Remember the Titans is an epic masterpiece in sports film history and is always recommended to those who love American football.
He is brought into the school to replace Bill Yoast (Will Patton) as head coach of the high school football team the Titans.
Yoast is upset at first, but then he decides to stay on as defensive coordinator of the Titans, and together these two men find away to get through their differences and bring a football team of both black and white students together as winners.
Denzel Washington was portrayed as the coach of the only black and white football team in the district.
Yakin's sports film about a newly appointed African American coach in a town where racial tension is high as the school team prepares for its first season as a racially integrated unit in contrast to its segregated past.
A white boy who's seen enough "integration" films that his heart is really hardened to that sort of thing, and really I care little to see any more of this sort of film.Let's be honest, after finishing Remember the Titans tonight -- I was a fool.It's a movie about football, but, to me at least, it was very little about football, and very much about people.
From looking into the segregation going on in Virginia at the time, to seeing the end result of a community uniting through a football team, this movie is by far the most inspiring movie in years!
I had a glowing review planned for this movie until I saw some of the user comments here, and I almost changed my mind.Denzel Washington plays as Herman Boone, an African-American coach, hired on the basis of affirmative action who faces a great deal of resentment for it, especially from former coach Bill Yoast(Will Patton), who is demoted to defensive coach.
Yoast's football-crazed daughter(Hayden Paneittiere), is such an outstanding character, that if this wasn't at least loosely based on a true story, you'd have to make someone like her up.Needless to say, most of the kids don't get along with each other, but Boone is determined to make sure that ends at training camp, and it does, which nearly creates a rift between first string Q.B. Gerry Bertier(Ryan Hurst), and his girlfriend(Kate Bosworth).
However Yoast finds his white friends are plotting to revoke his membership in the local hall of fame if he doesn't agree to let them dump Boone, so they rig the next game.Big Julius(Wood Harris) sounds a great deal like Mr. T when he tells an opposing player, that he'd better get used to being on the ground.As Louie Lastik, Ethan Suplee does a complete 180-degree reversal from his role in "American History X(1998)" as a kid from New Jersey who LOVES black culture!
Not usually a football fan, I rank this well cast and directed dramatic true story as one of my top 10, truly and movingly evoking an era I lived and schools I attended in the 60s-70s, but also with larger, deeper, and timeless themes of human rights, change, and acceptance, that make you think and test your attitudes, while also uplifting with the inspiring power of vision, courage, perseverance, and unity.Youths, adults, and entire cultures clash and make history in the struggle to meld or not to meld, to face and entrench or overcome cultural differences in order to achieve a common goal, and in so doing, also develop interesting new relationships and the discovery of hitherto unknown qualities in themselves against a dramatic backdrop of challenging events including unfairness from trusted adults to dependent youths.
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.
This movie made me laugh and it also touched my heart, I think that if you like to see a well acted football movie with a good plot, and a good meaning to it don't miss Remember The Titans!
Remember the Titans, directed by Boaz Yakin, is exactly the opposite of these drab movies.The story of T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, VA, the movie tells much more than the story of a football team.
From the beginning of camp, when players of other races are reluctant to sit on the same bus, to the end of the season when a white teammate proclaims one of his black teammates his brother, Yakin shows us the power of the human spirit to overcome adversity.He uses their success on the football field as a way to convey their struggles in life and society's.
Yes, a great deal of it focused on football, but it was about so much more than sports.The film centers on the 1971 football team (the Titans) at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, VA.
Washington is great as Head Coach Boone, and Patton is equally amazing as Coach Yoast, but the film would only be tolerable without the performances of the guys on the football team.
For starters, it's exquisitely acted and the music is nothing short of sensational -- a catchy collage of favorite oldies against a score combining sporty drumbeats and sentimental drama at appropriate plot junctures.Then there's the touching, sometimes-cliffhanger of a true storyline.Based on the tense experience of a Virginia city unhappily facing its first court-ordered school integration, Denzel Washington portrays the real-life Coach Hermann Boone.
Remember the Titans could have been a great movie because the true story on which it relies on is striking, but the way it is tackled turns it into an ordinary feature.So long finesse, everything here is handled frontally without much subtlety, Boaz Yakin and his writer using and abusing of very conventional scenes, not to say clichées, where the oozing melodramaticism is omnipresent, where every scene seems to seek to shed the viewer a tear with corny dialogues and grandiloquent violins, which turns out to be sickening.And it's too bad because the cast is very good and with the self sufficient power of the historical fact, there was no need to lay it on thick..
"Remember the Titans" is based on a true story which took place in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971 at T.C. Williams High School when segregation was still a huge issue in the South.
T.C. Williams was the high school that brought together two football teams, one white, and one black which means "these guys don't just have to tolerate each other.
Remember the Titans is a great film, raising important issues like racism in the 60s, years of great changes concerning the black people.
Remember the Titans is a movie that focuses on the racial issues that were going on during that time and the struggles a football team had to overcome to make it to their championship game.
I think this is such a strong movie because it gives us a good view on how bad these issues were during these times, and it was based on a true story on the Williams High School located in Alexandria, Virginia.
With Denzel Washington as its anchor, the film's cast breathes life into the characters based on the real-life football team from Alexandria, Virginia.
This inspiring drama written by Gregory Allen Howard and directed by Boaz Yakin is based on the true story of a Virginia high school football team and the two coaches, one black and one white, who led them during one season to great triumphs both on and off the field.
"Remember the Titans" is set in Virginia, where in 1971 high school football was everything to the people of Alexandria.
Herman Boone (Denzel Washington), a young black coach new to the community, was hired as head coach of the T.C. Williams High Titans over Bill Yoast, a white man with several years seniority, a steadfast following and a tradition of winning.
This 1971 T.C. Williams High School football team is one that is racially integrated, the only one in the surrounding Alexandria, VA area where whites and blacks get along together like oil and water.
Remember the Titans is a true story about overcoming differences with tremendous acting, particularly from coaches Herman Boone (Denzel Washington) and Bill Yoast (Will Patton), leaving viewers touched and inspired by the T.C. Williams Titans.1971 was a time of much desegregation in the South and it is decided that T.C. Williams High School be the home of two combined schools, one black, one white.
Yakin does a fantastic job of demonstrating racial issues during the movie through the portrayal of his characters and the development of plot.After a court order forces three schools (two white and one black) to integrate, the football team has to learn to deal with the differences in race.
Remember the Titans is one of the rare good football movies, definitely worth an hour and a half of your life..