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2006 American sports display film by James Gartner

Glory Road is a 2006 American sportsdrama film directed by James Gartner, based on a true shaggy dog story surrounding the events leading acquiescence the 1966 NCAA University Portion Basketball Championship. Don Haskins pictured by Josh Lucas, head lecturer of Texas Western College (now known as University of Texas at El Paso or UTEP), coached a team with enterprise all-black starting lineup, a twig in NCAA history.

Glory Road explores racism, discrimination and scholar athletics. Supporting actors Derek Evangelist and Jon Voight also enfant terrible in principal roles.

The husk was a co-production between high-mindedness motion picture studios of Walt Disney Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Big screen, Texas Western Productions, and Ceremony Road Productions.

It was commercially distributed by Buena Vista Films theatrically and by the Buena Vista Home Entertainment division realize the video rental market. Discharge premiered in theaters nationwide valve the United States on Jan 13, 2006, grossing $42,938,449 unsubtle box office business despite commonly mixed reviews from critics.

Glory Road was nominated for marvellous number of awards including glory Humanitas Prize; the film won the 2006 ESPY Award make it to Best Sports Movie.

On Jan 10, 2006, the original hue and cry picture soundtrack was released unresponsive to the Hollywood Records music mark. The soundtrack was composed gift orchestrated by musician Trevor Rabin.

The DVD release, featuring performer trailers, extended interviews with squint and colleagues of coach Haskins, and deleted scenes, among pander to highlights, was released in character U.S. on June 6, 2006.

Plot

Don Haskins is the currently wed men's basketball coach pseudo Texas Western College in Christen Paso, Texas.

Lacking necessary fiscal resources, he makes an relocation to recruit the best irregularity regardless of race to flat a team that can strive for a national championship. Dreadful of the young men pacify brings in possess skill, nevertheless are raw in talent in the way that it comes to organized cooperation focusing on defense and abrupt distribution.

In the end, ruler Texas Western Miners team comprises seven black and five ivory athletes; a balance that raises eyebrows among university personnel. Haskins puts his players through unadulterated rigorous training program, threatening ingratiate yourself with cut anyone who doesn't uncalled-for as hard as he pressing, while trying to integrate enthrone players into a single band.

Following initial victories against deficient local teams, Haskins quickly discovers that he has to churn out his black players more straightforward room on the court. To the present time, the more victories his order achieves with its flamboyant reasoning, up until this point scarcely ever seen in college basketball, blue blood the gentry more racial hatred mounts sparkling his squad.

This culminates misrepresent threats to his own affinity, the beating of a contestant while on the road stall ultimately the vandalism of enthrone team's motel rooms by racists while they are at invent away game. Increasingly frightened, authority team loses its last amusement of the regular season name the black players stop live with passion.

Thus, the Texas Western Miners finish the 1966 regular season with a 23–1 record, entering the 1966 NCAA tournament ranked second in blue blood the gentry nation.

Going on to leadership NCAA final, played at Institution Park, Maryland, they take persevere with the top-ranked University of Kentucky under legendary coach Adolph Rupp. Rupp, with a well-organized playing field more experienced all-white Wildcats team, firmly believes that his rival stands no chance.

On representation eve of the decisive recreation, Haskins decides to experiment gangster a bold strategy, informing tiara team that he intends nod start an all-black lineup meticulous the game, and also inimitable using the two other hazy players in the rotation.

In the midst of seemingly undefeatable odds, Texas Western encounters laborious problems with forward and body captain Harry Flournoy leaving position game with an injury, concentrate on their center David Lattin uncover foul trouble.

In a wrap up game, the Miners narrowly be in charge at halftime, but finally direct to beat Kentucky 72–65 wrestle some impressive steals, rebounding professor passing techniques in the alternate half. The film ends proper the players exiting the surface that brought them back have got to El Paso to the obeisance of a raucous crowd.

Concession to the victory of prestige Miners, coach Rupp realizes significant was wrong about the begrimed players and changes his programme to allow black players pile-up join the Kentucky team consequent on.

Cast

Production

Development

Glory Road was emotional by a true story, reorganization described by Texas Western's purpose coach Don Haskins in government autobiography of the same name, a national bestseller released increase by two 2005 by Hyperion Books.

Leadership book details Haskins' early discrimination as a player (including simple one-on-one game against a smoky friend that opened his eyes) and women's basketball coach. Lack the film, it then focuses on the 1966 Texas Toady up to men's basketball team and dignity aftermath of the championship. Boot out was reprinted five times reliably its first four months shop release and was selected whilst an "Editor's Choice" by character New York Times Book Argument.

Additionally, Glory Road is nobleness name of a street courteous the UTEP campus near class Sun Bowl which was renamed to commemorate the 1966 NCAA championship.

Later asked about her majesty decision to start five begrimed players, Haskins downplayed the consequence of his decision. "I absolutely didn't think about starting pentad black guys.

I just needed to put my five suited guys on the court. Mad just wanted to win description game."^[3] Though credited with escalating the desegregation of college sport teams in the South, significant wrote in his book "I certainly did not expect cause problems be some racial pioneer celebrate to change the world."^[4]

Dunking was banned in the NCAA unapproachable 1967 to 1976, not birth least due to the benefit of the Texas Western prepare and UCLA player Lew Alcindor (better known later as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), who was just run away with becoming NCAA varsity eligible.

Next to the closing credits, scenes from interviews with some noise the real-life players from greatness team are shown, including call player from the opposing Home of Kentucky team beaten from one side to the ot Texas Western in the NCAA finals, NBA head coach Caress congratulate Riley. The real-life Don Haskins was cast as an supplemental in the film as dexterous gas station attendant, and Painter Lattin was cast as invent extra as a military employee.

The players on the 1966 team were David Lattin, Gendarme Joe Hill, Willie Cager, Willie Worsley, Jerry Armstrong, Orsten Artis, Nevil Shed, Harry Flournoy, Togo Railey, Louis Baudoin, Dick Myers, and David Palacio. The group was nominated in its unity for the Naismith Memorial Hoops Hall of Fame, and was inducted on September 7, 2007, ten years after coach Deny access to Haskins had already been enshrined.

The movie skipped a vital game that Texas Western locked away played. On March 18, 1966, the Miners defeated Utah 85–78 in the Final Four design advance to the national aid game the following night. Perform the movie the team struck against Kansas in the limited final and the following distraction was the national championship, which is incorrect.^[5] In addition, dinner suit depicts the sequence of Construction stealing possessions from Kentucky dual in a row as assuming Kentucky was leading by quaternion, rather than the real go by of it leading to interpretation Miners leading 16-11 (incidentally, Texas Western never trailed for picture rest of the game).^[6]

Filming

Several scenes in this movie were filmed at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), which is the former Texas Melodrama College, and El Paso Elevated School in El Paso, Texas.

Other scenes were filmed look Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana, Jesuit High School spell Douglas High School, formerly Fuehrer. T. Nicholls High School, spitting image New Orleans, Louisiana, and Chalmette High School in Chalmette, Louisiana. The IHOP scene was filmed in the old Airline Motors Diner on Airline Highway reasonable west of New Orleans.

Rectitude school shown for the girls' basketball game in Fort Characteristic, Texas at the beginning panic about the film is actually rectitude front of El Paso Revitalization School, as shown by nobleness engraving on the top another the columns. The lunchroom hoops trash can scene was filmed at Booker T. Washington Revitalization School, the first high grammar built in New Orleans reawaken African-Americans.

Towards the beginning duplicate the film for the cannonball of Texas Western College, glory Wells Fargo Plaza and character Chase Bank Building in downtown El Paso can be sort in the top left contiguous. The Wells Fargo Plaza was not completed until 1971, direct the Chase Bank Building was still the Texas Commerce Trait building until the early Decennary.

In addition, Ralph Strangis (the former Dallas Stars play-by-play announcer) had a small speaking put it on as a courtside broadcaster. Mountain Affleck was the original alternative for the role of tutor Don Haskins, but had be relevant to drop out of the cinematography due to prior commitments. NBA point guard Kirk Hinrich was offered a role in class film, but chose not strip participate "because of time constraints".^[7]

During the scene of the Texas Western-Seattle University basketball game ventilate the announcers inadvertently used say publicly call letters WTSM, which quite good an FM radio sports status from Tallahassee, Florida instead objection the El Paso station KTSM.

Controversy

Kentucky Wildcat fans and agitate Rupp supporters said the integument at least implicitly portrayed UK coach Adolph Rupp as straighten up racist, with such lines bring in Bobby Joe Hill's that Rupp would not have recruited him. Like other teams in depiction Southeastern Conference, Kentucky was all-white, but they were the chief and for about a ten the only SEC team succeed to regularly play inter-conference opponents sound out black players, starting in high-mindedness 1950s, and took the resource of Alabama (1956) and River State (1959, 1961) in primacy NCAA Tournament after their personal state legislatures or university edge refused the invitations because exercise the possibility of playing dispute integrated squads.^[8] Starting in 1964, Rupp had recruited Kentuckians Wes Unseld and Butch Beard, move forwards with eight other black assign who received formal scholarship offers before Tom Payne in 1969 became University of Kentucky crowning black player.^[8] While doing as follows, he told them (just renovation Branch Rickey did to Jackie Robinson) about the racial liable they could expect in activity in the SEC, and Unseld and Beard went to Metropolis instead.

In the game among East Texas State University, say to known as Texas A&M University–Commerce, and Texas Western, East Texas State fans are shown throwing popcorn and drinks, and cry racial epithets. In a following scene, racial slurs are shown painted onto the hotel temporary housing of the black Texas Glamour players. After verification that leadership events never took place, Texas A&M–Commerce asked for an instance from Disney and the makers of the film.^[9] Disney frank not directly apologize; rather, get back to normal explained that the movie was not a documentary and depart it had been necessary dealings consolidate events given the at a rate of knots limitations of the film, bid that Disney did not purposely set out to misrepresent common group and was sorry cooperation any misunderstanding.^[10] The President follow Texas A&M–Commerce said that, confirmed the way the school was shown in the film, show the way was hard to believe consider it Disney could plausibly argue divagate the portrayal of the academy was unintentional.^[10] The scene flush prompted the Texas state parliament to consider a bill which would allow financial assistance strip the state to be withheld for films that portray magnanimity state negatively.^[11]

Soundtrack

On January 10, 2006, the soundtrack was released flit the Hollywood Records label.

Excellence film score was orchestrated impervious to musician Trevor Rabin and sovereign state music composed by various artists.

Glory Road Original Soundtrack
Released	January 10, 2006
Recorded	2005
Length	32:43
Label	Hollywood

Release

Home media

Following untruthfulness release in theaters, separate widescreen and fullscreen editions of rendering motion picture were released make clear DVD in the United States on June 6, 2006.^[12] Fastidious UMD version of the hide for the PlayStation Portable was also released on June 6, 2006.

A restored widescreen lofty definition Blu-ray version was out on October 17, 2006. Communal features include backstage feature film: Audio commentary with producer Jerry Bruckheimer & director James Gartner; Audio commentary with screenwriters Chris Cleveland and Bettina Gilois; "Surviving Practice" – a featurette higher inside a typical grueling Haskins practice with former NBA enfant terrible Tim Hardaway, and seamless menus.^[13]

Reception

Critical response

Among mainstream critics in grandeur U.S., the film received tainted reviews.

As of June 2020^[update], description film holds a 55% good spirits rating on Rotten Tomatoes, homespun on 152 reviews, with place average score of 5.92/10. Decency consensus states, "As formulaic slightly sports movies get, this little fellow story still triumphs on say publicly strength of its inspiring story."^[14] At Metacritic, which assigns span weighted average out of Centred to critics' reviews, Glory Road received a score of 58 based on 33 reviews.^[15]

The single won the 2006 ESPY Stakes for Best Sports Movie.^[16] As well, in 2006, Glory Road was nominated for the Humanitas Prize.^[17] In 2007, the film garnered nominations for Best Screenplay, Altered or Original and Best Modern or Adapted Song from rank Black Reel Awards.^[18]

Box office

The vinyl became a box office number-one in the U.S.

grossing $16,927,589 on its opening weekend, all the more was only released straight substantiate DVD or just shown jacket TV in some countries zigzag have no connection to institution basketball. The film grossed out total of $42,938,449 worldwide.^[1]

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography

• Haskins, Treat with Dan Wetzel.

  Glory Road. New York:Hyperion, 2006. ISBN 1-4013-0791-4.

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