Something to Cheer About
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Black & White / Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: January 21, 2020
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Screen Media
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Directed by | Betsy Blankenbaker |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 2/4 --
The film is really geared toward basketball fans who won't mind the talking-heads format, and the glowing interviews that have more the tone of testimonials than a historical documentary.
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TV Guide
Rating: 2/5 --
The movie could have had much greater resonance were it not focused so monolithically on basketball. One wonders what life was like at Attucks High, or how the players' success on the court affected their lives off it.
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Los Angeles Times
Short, sweet and sentimental....SOMETHING TO CHEER ABOUT plays tribute to a time when basketball scholarships and professional opportunities were practically unknown.
New York Times
Rating: 3/5 --
Plodding but heartfelt, Something to Cheer About pays tribute to a time when basketball scholarships and professional opportunities were practically unknown. Back then, a player's only opportunity was to make history.
New York Times
Rating: C- --
Plays like a well-intentioned but somewhat dull HBO special.
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Detroit News
It muddies key details (it's not clear we're seeing the '55 championship game until it's over), while never addressing others (the team's gifted coach quit in '57, but who knows why?).
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Rating: B --
Utterly conventional...but still works as an uplifting tale of success in adverse circumstances, and as a testimony to the power of one dedicated teacher.
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Product Description:
This crowd-pleasing documentary celebrates the accomplishments of Oscar Robertson and the Crispus Attucks Tigers. Led by future NBA MVP Robertson, the Indianapolis high school team challenged racial prejudice in 1950s America. Future Harlem Globetrotter Hallie Bryant and All American Basketball star Willie Meriweather joined Robertson as they pounded the hardwood--and their opponents--along their way to becoming the first all-black team to be state champions in basketball.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 73,821
- UPC: 810017883608
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