The Great Debaters (2007)
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| Release Date: | December 25, 2007 (Limited) |
| On DVD: | May 13, 2008 |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Director: | Denzel Washington |
| Writer: | Robert Eisele |
| Cast: | Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Jurnee Smollett, Denzel Whitaker, Kimberly Elise, Nate Parker |
| Studio: | The Weinstein Company |
| Official site: | thegreatdebatersmovie.com |
| Running Time: | 123 minutes |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for depiction of strong thematic material including violence and disturbing images, and for language and brief sexuality. |
Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and inspired by a true story, "The Great Debaters" chronicles the journey of a brilliant but volatile coach (Denzel Washington) who uses the power of words to shape a group of underdog students from a small, modest black college in East Texas into an elite debate team while challenging the social mores of the time, culminating with a groundbreaking invitation to debate Harvard's championship team....
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The latest in a subset genre I like to call "teacher genres", The Great Debaters is Denzel Washington's second directorial effort after the critically acclaimed Antwone Fisher. Washington also stars as Melvin B. Tolson, a teacher who led his all-black debate team to go up against a white school - Harvard, no less - for the first time in history.
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