REMEMBER THE TITANS (2000)

MORGAN'S RATING

Academy Award winner Denzel Washington gives a victorious performance in this stirring and uplifting film. Based on a real-life drama, Remember the Titans is a rousing celebration of how a town torn apart by resentment, friction and mistrust comes together in triumphant harmony. The year is 1971. After leading his team to fifteen winning seasons, football coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone, tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. How these two men overcome their differences, and turn a group of hostile young men into champions, plays out in a remarkable and triumphant story full of soul and spirit. You and your family will never forget the Titans.

Denzel Washington (Coach Boone), Will Patton (Coach Yoast), Donald Adeosun Faison (Petey), Scott Miles (Principal), Sharon Blackwood (Nurse), Preston Brant (Jerry Buck), Rice Brett (Coach Tyrell), Kelly Cheston (Girl #2), Neal Grant (Glascoe), Ryan Gosling (Bosley), Stuart Greer (Ass. Coach Marshall), Wood Harris (Big Ju), Ryan Hurst (Bertier), David Jefferson (Cook), Burgess Jenkins (Butts), Lucinda Jenney (Arleen Yoast), Craig Kirkwood (Rev), Hayden Panettiere (Cheryl Yoast), Kip Pardue (Sunshine), Earl Poitier (Blue), Ethan Suplee (Lastik), John Michael Weatherly (Kirk Barker), Gregory Allen Williams (Coach "Doc" Hinds), Kate Bosworth, Nicole Ari Parker, Aaron Weiler (Protestor/Reporter, uncredited), Gerrit Hamilton (Chain Gang Member, uncredited).

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PRODUCTION INFORMATION

DIRECTOR: Boaz Yakin.

WRITERS: Gregory Allen Howard.

PRODUCERS: Jerry Bruckheimer and Chad Oman.

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Jennifer Krug-Worthington and Pat Sandston.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Michael Flynn and Mike Stenson.

ORIGINAL MUSIC: Trevor Rabin.

DISTRIBUTOR: Walt Disney Pictures.

CRITICAL COMMENTS

"Corny but crowd-pleasing tale...Pat and manipulative, but still effective thanks in large part to the power of Washington's performance." -- Leonard Maltin

"Startlingly resonant yet unabashedly entertaining." -- Tom Keogh, Film.Com

"A totally absorbing movie." -- Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

FACTS

RELEASE DATE: September 29th, 2000 (USA) BOX OFFICE OPENING: $20.9 million (USA) BOX OFFICE RESULT: $115.6 million (USA) BUDGET: $27 million (USA) PRODUCTION DATES: September 1999 -- December 1999

"Denzel Washington should have held out for a better script before he signed on to star in Remember the Titans." -- Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

"Washington and the others score in this predictable but rousing film where the big victory is over attitudes." -- Jay Carr, Boston Globe

"Jerry Bruckheimer, in an atypically high-minded and low-budget frame of mind, manages to breeze through most of the gridiron genre's obstacles with his admirable, crowd-pleasing Titans." -- Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today

"I admired the way the screenplay doesn't make Boone a noble and Yoast a racist, but shows them both as ambitious and skilled professionals." -- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times