Alphonso mcauley glory road trailer
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"Glory Road" is an inspirational and refreshingly funny story about a team that breaks barriers and overcomes deep-rooted prejudices against tremendous odds. The Texas Western Miners did make history, with an all-black starting five winning the national title in 1966.
But does the film ("Glory Road" is being released by Disney, the parent company of ESPN) do a good job of telling history? Consider the typical opening disclaimer -- "Based on the True Story" -- and decide if you think it comes close enough.
EARLY DAYS: HASKINS TAKES THE HELM
Josh Lucas plays Don Haskins, a coach ready to change history in college basketball.
In reel life: Just before getting the job at Texas Western University (now Texas-El Paso or UTEP), coach Don Haskins (played by Josh Lucas) is a girls high school basketball coach.
In real life: Kinda sorta. Haskins coached girls hoops at a couple of very small high schools in Texas in the mid-1950s. But he was also coaching football and boys basketball at the same time. So it wasn't his primary qualification for the Texas Western post, as implied.
In reel life: Haskins arrives at Texas Western at the start of the 1965-66 season.
In real life: Haskins began coaching at Texas Western in 1961; during that first seaso
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Glory Road (film)
2006 American diversions drama coating by Saint Gartner
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L-R: Damaine Radcliff, Sam Jones III, Alphonso McAuley, Al Shearer & James Olivard (obscured),
Schin A.S. Kerr, Mitch Eakins, Derek Luke, Austin Nichols, Mehcad Brooks.
Photo Credit: Frank Connor. © 2005 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved.
“Glory Road” opens as though it were Jerry Bruckheimer’s wet dream—a title sequence that plays out like a trailer. Why do we need the flashcards-for-dummies approach? We’re already there, seated. I feel like I’m watching George Bush’s second term sound-bite speeches that, despite two wins, still sound like campaign pitches.
Like ten of the twelve theatrical trailers before it, this movie is “inspired by a true story.” I’m not sure that phrase ever had any meaning, but I’ll get back to addressing the myriad clichés of this film later. This is the story of Don Haskins (Josh Lucas), recruited by Texas Western to coach NCAA Division 1 basketball, and his ragtag team of misfits… sorry, for a minute there I lapsed into thinking I was writing a treatment for Michael Bay. I guess I should consider myself fortunate this film was directed by newcomer James Gartner. But, as luck would have it, he seems only to be a Michael Bay in training.
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