Mike RichBesprekingen

A Texas baseball coach makes the major league after agreeing to try out if his high school team made the playoffs. Based on true story.

1926

The story of a high school coach and the developmentally challenged man who he took under his wing.
Rated PG for mild language and thematic elements

This is not a film that will ever light up the planet as it has no real drama. Either the viewer will know what happened or they will guess that being filmed means nothing truly awful will happen. I actually quite enjoyed it though as I didn't know the history although I knew Secretariat was a famous horse. It was a pleasant couple of hours but nothing special.½

A great film about a reluctant author who wants to be left alone.

Connery plays an author, William Forrester, who at one time won the Pulitzer. A young black high school teenager, Jamal Wallace, is pressured to break into Forrester's apartment which he succeeds in doing, but Forrester was there to keep him from stealing anything by shouting at the intruder. Wallace accidentally leaves his back pack full of his journals. Forrester, in response, "edits" all his journals.

Wallace was ashamed of what he did and attempts to apologize to Forrester. Forrester respond that Wallace should write about what Wallace had done. They develop a relationship concerning writing, ultimately leading to a confrontation with a lesser writer & instructor (Robert Crawford) at a local preparatory school.

In the end Forrester dies, thanking Wallace for his friendship which encouraged Forrester to see his home country of Scotland.

The story of a high school coach and the developmentally challenged man whom he took under his wing.
Director: Michael Tollin
Writer: Mike Rich
Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Ed Harris, Debra Winger |

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