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Rated: PG-13; DVD Release Date: May 13, 2008; Genre: Drama; With: Denzel Washington and Forest Whitaker; Distributor: MGM
By the time Oscar winners Washington and Whitaker — as rival influences on an all-black debate team — collide on screen in The Great Debaters, any excitement around their scenes is deflated by the manufactured drama of this true-life historical lesson. Director Washington films the story of Wiley College's 1935 debate champions like a clichéd sports movie — one that lacks complexity or suspense. EXTRASSpirited interviews with surviving Wiley debaters; gushing from starstruck producer Oprah Winfrey: ''I hope that in my lifetime I get...to work with Forest as an actor.'' C+
Posted May 02, 2008
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