To boot, the showy blacktop ballgames that the black kids are accustomed to do not make them perfect fits for Haskins's disciplined, principled style of play.
The black students, very much out of their environment, bind together rather than merely fit in at their new campus. The white students, one of whom has never seen a "colored person", are reluctant to give up starting positions. What ensues is very much like what went down in Titans. Haskins' intentions are less to break down social barriers than to foster a winning team which adheres to his strict methods. From Gary, Indiana to the playgrounds of New York City, urban teens are brought in (sometimes against their better judgment) to become part of Haskins' squad, the Miners.
Haskins disregards the sometimes-spoken tenet of the time (the mid-1960s) and specifically recruits black athletes that other national institutions would have little interest in welcoming aboard. The tough-talking figure here is Don Haskins (Josh Lucas), a hard-nosed southern man who does not hesitate in accepting the head coaching position at Texas Western College, a clear step-up from the girls high school basketball he is instructing, even though it means moving his wife Mary (Emily Deschanel, who does little more than show a supportive face) and young children into a men's dormitory. Though the stakes were higher this time around - with NCAA basketball demanding more significance than even the high school football that Virginians were so gung-ho about - Glory Road seemed suspiciously similar on the surface to 2000's hit Remember the Titans, from the tough-talking coach figure to a racially diverse team plagued by out-of-uniform concerns, all the way down to shared trailer music. Kerr (David Lattin), Alphonso McAuley (Orsten Artis), Mehcad Brooks (Harry Flournoy), Sam Jones III (Willie Worsley), Damaine Radcliff (Willie "Scoops" Cager), Emily Deschanel (Mary Haskins), Al Shearer (Nevil Shed), Red West (Ross Moore), Kip Weeks (Togo Railey), Mitch Eakins (Dick Myers), Alejandro Hernandez (Louis "Flip" Baudoin), Wilbur Fitzgerald (Wade Richardson), Tatyana Ali (Tina Malichi)īuy Glory Road from : Widescreen DVD Īfter leading Walt Disney Pictures to unprecedented live action success with Caribbean pirates and globe-trotting treasure hunts, blockbuster-churning producer Jerry Bruckheimer returned to the class in which he made his debut collaboration with the family-oriented studio: the true sports drama. Theatrical Release: Janu/ Running Time: 118 Minutes / Rating: PGĭirector: James Gartner / Writers: Chris Cleveland, Bettina GiloisĬast: Josh Lucas (Coach Don Haskins), Derek Luke (Bobby Joe Hill), Austin Nichols (Jerry Armstrong), Jon Voight (Adolph Rupp), Evan Jones (Moe Ira), Schin A.S.
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