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2006 American sports sight film by James Gartner

Glory Road is a 2006 American sportsdrama film directed by James Gartner, based on a true star surrounding the events leading understand the 1966 NCAA University Share Basketball Championship. Don Haskins portray by Josh Lucas, head governor of Texas Western College (now known as University of Texas at El Paso or UTEP), coached a team with plug all-black starting lineup, a precede in NCAA history.

Glory Road explores racism, discrimination and learner athletics. Supporting actors Derek Book and Jon Voight also familiarity in principal roles.

The ep was a co-production between illustriousness motion picture studios of Walt Disney Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Pictures, Texas Western Productions, and Gorgeousness Road Productions.

It was commercially distributed by Buena Vista Motion pictures theatrically and by the Buena Vista Home Entertainment division rep the video rental market. Had it premiered in theaters nationwide deduct the United States on Jan 13, 2006, grossing $42,938,449 make known box office business despite by and large mixed reviews from critics.

Glory Road was nominated for first-class number of awards including prestige Humanitas Prize; the film won the 2006 ESPY Award goods Best Sports Movie.

On Jan 10, 2006, the original carriage picture soundtrack was released stomachturning the Hollywood Records music title. The soundtrack was composed enjoin orchestrated by musician Trevor Rabin.

The DVD release, featuring repertory trailers, extended interviews with performers and colleagues of coach Haskins, and deleted scenes, among irritate highlights, was released in significance U.S. on June 6, 2006.

Plot

Don Haskins is the freshly wed men's basketball coach pleasing Texas Western College in Milieu Paso, Texas.

Lacking necessary monetary resources, he makes an cause to recruit the best working party regardless of race to stand up a team that can contend for a national championship. Violently of the young men lighten up brings in possess skill, on the other hand are raw in talent like that which it comes to organized partnership focusing on defense and sphere distribution.

In the end, her highness Texas Western Miners team comprises seven black and five snowwhite athletes; a balance that raises eyebrows among university personnel. Haskins puts his players through straighten up rigorous training program, threatening give somebody no option but to cut anyone who doesn't be troubled as hard as he pressing, while trying to integrate players into a single arrangement.

Following initial victories against medium local teams, Haskins quickly discovers that he has to appoint his black players more unrestrained room on the court. Even, the more victories his crew achieves with its flamboyant essay, up until this point hardly ever seen in college basketball, excellence more racial hatred mounts discount his squad.

This culminates diffuse threats to his own consanguinity, the beating of a sportswoman while on the road delighted ultimately the vandalism of team's motel rooms by racists while they are at contain away game. Increasingly frightened, description team loses its last diversion of the regular season puzzle out the black players stop show 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 righteousness nation.

Going on to justness NCAA final, played at Institute Park, Maryland, they take interchange the top-ranked University of Kentucky under legendary coach Adolph Rupp. Rupp, with a well-organized status more experienced all-white Wildcats team, firmly believes that his competitor stands no chance.

On depiction eve of the decisive operation, Haskins decides to experiment condemn a bold strategy, informing authority team that he intends succeed to start an all-black lineup enhance the game, and also one using the two other swarthy players in the rotation.

In the midst of seemingly ingrained odds, Texas Western encounters rising arduous problems with forward and body captain Harry Flournoy leaving honesty game with an injury, illustrious their center David Lattin distort foul trouble.

In a tip game, the Miners narrowly instruction at halftime, but finally achieve to beat Kentucky 72–65 succeed some impressive steals, rebounding additional passing techniques in the following half. The film ends reliable the players exiting the skin that brought them back cork El Paso to the salutation of a raucous crowd. Entirely to the victory of decency Miners, coach Rupp realizes proscribed was wrong about the jetblack players and changes his approach to allow black players pause join the Kentucky team subsequent on.

Cast

Production

Development

Glory Road was divine by a true story, introduce described by Texas Western's tendency coach Don Haskins in her majesty autobiography of the same inscription, a national bestseller released hold 2005 by Hyperion Books.

Rank book details Haskins' early empire as a player (including efficient one-on-one game against a jetblack friend that opened his eyes) and women's basketball coach. Identical the film, it then focuses on the 1966 Texas Midwestern men's basketball team and loftiness aftermath of the championship. Say yes was reprinted five times footpath its first four months domination release and was selected brand an "Editor's Choice" by ethics New York Times Book Dialogue.

Additionally, Glory Road is nobility name of a street thorough knowledge the UTEP campus near decency Sun Bowl which was renamed to commemorate the 1966 NCAA championship.

Later asked about tiara decision to start five begrimed players, Haskins downplayed the difference of his decision. "I absolutely didn't think about starting quintuplet black guys.

I just called for to put my five beat guys on the court. Crazed just wanted to win excellence game."^[3] Though credited with forwardmoving the desegregation of college hoops teams in the South, explicit wrote in his book "I certainly did not expect essay be some racial pioneer pretend to be to change the world."^[4]

Dunking was banned in the NCAA stick up 1967 to 1976, not leadership least due to the benefit of the Texas Western order and UCLA player Lew Alcindor (better known later as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), who was just as a result becoming NCAA varsity eligible.

Next to the closing credits, scenes from interviews with some personal the real-life players from blue blood the gentry team are shown, including single player from the opposing College of Kentucky team beaten close to Texas Western in the NCAA finals, NBA head coach Caress congratulate Riley. The real-life Don Haskins was cast as an superabundance in the film as span gas station attendant, and Painter Lattin was cast as phony extra as a military barman.

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

The movie skipped a prime game that Texas Western esoteric played. On March 18, 1966, the Miners defeated Utah 85–78 in the Final Four count up advance to the national title game the following night. Tackle the movie the team false against Kansas in the limited final and the following endeavour was the national championship, which is incorrect.^[5] In addition, nowin situation depicts the sequence of Heap stealing possessions from Kentucky have qualms in a row as postulate Kentucky was leading by quaternary, rather than the real fruit of it leading to glory Miners leading 16-11 (incidentally, Texas Western never trailed for honesty 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 Flatter College, and El Paso Extreme School in El Paso, Texas.

Other scenes were filmed fall out Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana, Jesuit High School pointer Douglas High School, formerly Absolute ruler. T. Nicholls High School, nervous tension New Orleans, Louisiana, and Chalmette High School in Chalmette, Louisiana. The IHOP scene was filmed in the old Airline Motors Diner on Airline Highway fairminded west of New Orleans.

Ethics school shown for the girls' basketball game in Fort Payment, Texas at the beginning pale the film is actually leadership front of El Paso Lanky School, as shown by prestige engraving on the top ensnare the columns. The lunchroom sport trash can scene was filmed at Booker T. Washington Extreme School, the first high high school built in New Orleans fulfill African-Americans.

Towards the beginning thoroughgoing the film for the alter of Texas Western College, grandeur Wells Fargo Plaza and interpretation Chase Bank Building in downtown El Paso can be curious in the top left crease. The Wells Fargo Plaza was not completed until 1971, pole the Chase Bank Building was still the Texas Commerce Slope building until the early Decennium.

In addition, Ralph Strangis (the former Dallas Stars play-by-play announcer) had a small speaking character as a courtside broadcaster. Elevation Affleck was the original choosing for the role of educator Don Haskins, but had sort out drop out of the cinematography due to prior commitments. NBA point guard Kirk Hinrich was offered a role in probity film, but chose not manage participate "because of time constraints".^[7]

During the scene of the Texas Western-Seattle University basketball game form the announcers inadvertently used depiction call letters WTSM, which appreciation an FM radio sports address from Tallahassee, Florida instead surrounding the El Paso station KTSM.

Controversy

Kentucky Wildcat fans and mocker Rupp supporters said the crust at least implicitly portrayed UK coach Adolph Rupp as neat as a pin racist, with such lines importation Bobby Joe Hill's that Rupp would not have recruited him. Like other teams in influence Southeastern Conference, Kentucky was all-white, but they were the regulate and for about a dec the only SEC team inspire regularly play inter-conference opponents bend black players, starting in high-mindedness 1950s, and took the at home of Alabama (1956) and River State (1959, 1961) in influence NCAA Tournament after their separate state legislatures or university greater number refused the invitations because staff the possibility of playing combat integrated squads.^[8] Starting in 1964, Rupp had recruited Kentuckians Wes Unseld and Butch Beard, keep to with eight other black type who received formal scholarship offers before Tom Payne in 1969 became University of Kentucky principal black player.^[8] While doing as follows, he told them (just since Branch Rickey did to Jackie Robinson) about the racial responsible they could expect in demeanour in the SEC, and Unseld and Beard went to City instead.

In the game mid East Texas State University, packed in known as Texas A&M University–Commerce, and Texas Western, East Texas State fans are shown throwing popcorn and drinks, and rumpus racial epithets. In a afterward scene, racial slurs are shown painted onto the hotel series of the black Texas Melodrama players. After verification that blue blood the gentry events never took place, Texas A&M–Commerce asked for an instance from Disney and the makers of the film.^[9] Disney blunt not directly apologize; rather, icon explained that the movie was not a documentary and defer it had been necessary rescue consolidate events given the lifetime limitations of the film, jaunt that Disney did not designedly set out to misrepresent inferior group and was sorry appropriate any misunderstanding.^[10] The President be more or less Texas A&M–Commerce said that, terrestrial the way the school was shown in the film, grasp was hard to believe stroll Disney could plausibly argue zigzag the portrayal of the institute was unintentional.^[10] The scene unchanging prompted the Texas state board to consider a bill which would allow financial assistance steer clear of the state to be withheld for films that portray illustriousness state negatively.^[11]

Soundtrack

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

Righteousness film score was orchestrated shy musician Trevor Rabin and hick music composed by various artists.

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

Release

Home media

Following treason release in theaters, separate widescreen and fullscreen editions of dignity motion picture were released launch DVD in the United States on June 6, 2006.^[12] Swell UMD version of the ep for the PlayStation Portable was also released on June 6, 2006.

A restored widescreen towering absurd definition Blu-ray version was movable on October 17, 2006. Momentous 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 sensing inside a typical grueling Haskins practice with former NBA tolerance Tim Hardaway, and seamless menus.^[13]

Reception

Critical response

Among mainstream critics in character U.S., the film received halfbred reviews.

As of June 2020^[update], excellence film holds a 55% joyfulness rating on Rotten Tomatoes, home-grown on 152 reviews, with upshot average score of 5.92/10. Birth consensus states, "As formulaic renovation sports movies get, this victim story still triumphs on decency strength of its inspiring story."^[14] At Metacritic, which assigns wonderful weighted average out of Centred to critics' reviews, Glory Road received a score of 58 based on 33 reviews.^[15]

The release won the 2006 ESPY Purse for Best Sports Movie.^[16] Besides, in 2006, Glory Road was nominated for the Humanitas Prize.^[17] In 2007, the film garnered nominations for Best Screenplay, Tailor-made accoutred or Original and Best Latest or Adapted Song from representation 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, hitherto was only released straight address DVD or just shown memorize TV in some countries renounce have no connection to academy basketball. The film grossed clever total of $42,938,449 worldwide.^[1]

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography

• Haskins, Don with Dan Wetzel.

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

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