This movie is significant an important. It is important to remember where we come from, and those moments that were really ground breaking in terms of civil right. There is Jackie Robinson breaking into Major League Baseball and in basketball, there is the 1965-66 NCAA championship of the Texas Western Miner under Don Haskins. Texas is in the south, and fielding a team with seven black players was unheard of. The movie displays very well some of the racial tension at the time. The events in the movie predate the assasination of Martin Luther King by a couple of years.
This is a movie about dreams. The dreams of Don Haskins as the coach, and the dreams of the players. Those dreams took these players into uncharted territory. It would have been easy to have given up the dream. I am glad they didn't. Josh Lucas stars as Don Haskins. This is an important movie for parents to watch with their children.
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