movie poster for GLORY ROAD

Flicks ID

13638

Cert

PG

Running time

113 mins

Country

Format

DVD

GLORY ROAD (2006)

JAMES GARTNER

Plot

Don Haskins is the basketball coach for a small Texas University, but he's also a man with a dream and that is to win the National Championship. Based, if somewhat inaccurately, on a true story that took place in the 1960s, Glory Road is a remarkable, if familiar, tale of the underdog, in this instance a predominantly black team, coming from nowhere to powerhouse through the field and face the overwhelming favourites in a final that everyone only thought they'd witness as spectators. An inspiring if inevitably clichéd Bruckheimer produced sporting drama.