Remember The Titans

REMEMBER THE TITANS * * * *

RATING: PG

STARRING: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Donald Adeosun Faison, Hayden Panettiere, and Ryan Hurst

DIRECTOR: Boaz Yakin

DISTRIBUTOR: Watt Disney Pictures/Waft Disney Company

GENRE: Drama

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older children and adults SUMMARY: Denzel Washington stars as

Herman Boone in Remember the Titans.. Boone's a black coach given the head coaching position at a formerly all-white school due to forced integration. Met with disdain, anger and a divided football team of racial foes, Coach Boone must teach them unity. Tempers flare, but little by littie, confrontations turn into accomplishments not only for the team, but also for Boone and the assistant white coach whose job he took. Amid the many trials that the players and coaches face, it is clear in Remember the Titans that the real victory lies in changed hearts.

Based on a true story, Remember the Titans depicts the reality of forced integration in Alexandria, Va., in 1971. Though the movie's racial theme is not always easy, the casting and performances by Washington, Will Patton as the assistant coach and Donald Faison as one of the players are excellent Despite a few questionable elements, this movie gives an important life-lesson about exchanging hate for loyal friendships. It is a refreshing and uplifting, often humorous, look at the antics of high school football.

CONTENT Strong moral worldview of characters learning to overcome prejudice by budding deep friendships and other moral undertones with some Christian and romantic elements such as implied team prayer with depicted"Amen," man says, "I'm not a savior, I'm a football coach," Christian character called "the Rev" who wants to be a pastor, recita[of Isaiah 40:31 in a song; no obscenities or profanities but some uses of "coon" and other racial epithets, depiction of boy vomiting; football violence, young girl kicks man in shins, rioting with bottle thrown through window, large group brawl, depictions of bruises and black eyes, parents riot with depicted shouting and anger, rock thrown through fami's window, and depicted car crash with bruises and scratches on character; no sex; upper-male nudity in locker room; and racism and male kisses other male briefly, in a nonhomosexual context, as a joke.

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