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Studio: The Weinstein Company
Release Date: Dec 25, 2007
Running Time: 127 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
starring: Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Jermaine Williams, J.D. Evermore, John Heard, Kimberly Elise, Nate Parker, Justice Leak, Denzel Whitaker, Gina Ravera
director: Denzel Washington
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Professor Melvin Tolson, a brilliant but volatile debate team coach, uses the power of words to shape a group of underdog students from a small African American college in the deep south into a historically elite debate team. A controversial figure, Professor Tolson challenged the social mores of the time and was under constant fire for his unconventional and ferocious teaching methods as well as his radical political views. In their pursuit for excellence, Tolson's debate team receives a groundbreaking invitation to debate Harvard University 's championship team.
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For his second directorial effort, Denzel Washington deftly applies the feel-good formula of Remember the Titans to this racially charged but inevitably inspiring "David vs. Goliath" true story of an African-American college debate team taking on Harvard in 1935. Story Washington knows what it means to be an underdog during a time of turbulent race relations. In Remember the Titans, his football coach won it all after he ignored warnings about the perils of playing black and white players on the
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