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Created Apr 16, 2010 11:51PM PST • Edited Apr 16, 2010 11:51PM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Very Good 3.5

   A dramatic look at the life of one of football’s heroes: Ernie Davis. It won’t matter if you aren’t a football fan, this look at America’s checkered history of race relations, and the strength and determination that gets Ernie through it all is a treat. And if you are a sports fan? Well, this movie stands up there with the some of the great emotional and inspiring films that get you cheering.

4. Acting

   Very Good 3.5

   Rob Brown does a decent all around job, but my biggest kudos go to Dennis Quaid – whom I never would have pictured as a coach-figure before watching this. Approaching the team with both a drill-sergeant’s style and a seer’s calculation. Charles Dutton was also a pleasure to see.

5. Male Stars Very Good 3.5

6. Female Stars Very Good 3.5

7. Female Costars Very Good 3.5

8. Male Costars Very Good 3.5

10. Film

    Very Good 3.5

    Its not like this type of movie hasn’t been done before – sports with the race plight underpinnings. That said, it was intriguing to see things from, a more personal and dramatic perspective than usual, but it does make you wonder how close to historical fact it was as a result.

11. Direction Very Good 3.5

12. Play Very Good 3.5

13. Music Very Good 3.5

14. Visuals Very Good 3.5
15. Content

16. Edge

    Tame 1.5

17. Sex Innocent 1.5

18. Violence Gentle 1.5

19. Rudeness Polite 1.5

21. Reality

    Glib 1.3

22. Circumstantial Glib 1.3

23. Biological Glib 1.3

24. Physical Glib 1.3