The true story of an newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.
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Denzel Washington as Coach Herman Boone
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Bertier: Listen, I'm Gary, you're Julius. Let's just get some particulars and get this over with.
Big Ju: Particulars? Man, no matter what I tell you, you ain't neva gonna know nothing about me.
Bertier: Listen, I ain't running any more of these three-a-days
Big Ju: Well, what I got to say you really don't wanna hear 'cuz honesty ain't too high upon your people priorities.
Bertier: Honesty? You want honesty? Honestly, I think you're nothing. Nothing but a pure waste of God-given talent. You don't listen to nobody man. Not even Doc or Boone. Shiver push on the line everytime and you blow right past 'em. Push 'em, pull 'em. do something. You can't run over everyone in this league and everytime you do you leave one of your teammates hanging out to dry, me in particular?
Big Ju: Why should I give a hoot about you? Huh? Or anyone else out there? You wanna talk about the ways you the captain?
Bertier: Right.
Big Ju: You got a job?
Bertier: I got a job.
Big Ju: You been doing you're job?
Bertier: I been doing my job.
Big Ju: Then why don't you tell your white buddies to block for Rev better because they have not blocked for him worth a blood nickel, and you know it! Nobody plays. Yourself included. I'm supposed to wear myself out for the team? What team? Nah, nah what I'm gonna do is look out for myself and I'ma get mine.
Bertier: See man, thats the worst attitude I eva heard.
Big Ju: Attitude reflect leadership, captain.
It seems as though mega-producer Jerry Bruckheimer is stretching his wings a little this year with two follow-up films to his typical summertime macho fest flick GONE IN SIXTY SECONDS. The first was COYOTE UGLY, a T&A film disguised as a "woman's story" (or the other way around), and the second is this movie, a real-life drama based on the forced integration of blacks and whites in the early 70s.
