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It's kinda like an updated Remeber The Titans. I think if you enjoyed than you'll like this. It setting after post segregation in the 70s and their still animosity between blacks and whites. I thought Terreance Howard did a good job and it was...
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It's kinda like an updated Remeber The Titans. I think if you enjoyed than you'll like this. It setting after post segregation in the 70s and their still animosity between blacks and whites. I thought Terreance Howard did a good job and it was nice seeing hime play a good guy. Bernie Mac is of course the funny guy in the movie. I know you'll like the endind. It's worth it. This a family movie showing teenagers with potential and perserverance.

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Posted apr 12, 2007 9:04 am pt

• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  83
  Pride doesn't have much surprise, but it's a formula picture of genuine feeling.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  75
  Howard, playing an inspirational and resourceful man up against long odds, really is an inspiration.

  by Michael Phillips | Read Full Review »
• [+] Charlotte Observer
  
  75
  It's about black athletes, and they swim. It's as reassuringly uplifting as its predecessors, but the African-American and aquatic elements set it pleasantly apart.

  by Lawrence Toppman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  70
  Inspired by the true story of Ellis, has Hollywood formula practically stitched to its Speedo. But the characters and the actors who play them are so captivating, we're too entertained and charmed to notice.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Christian Science Monitor
  
  67
  Whether this is all a case of life imitating art or vice versa matters little. Few of these movies aspire to art. What counts is the trajectory of uplift.

  by Peter Rainer | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  67
  As exasperating as it is conventionally satisfying.

  by Sean Axmaker | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  67
  There are formulaic moments aplenty in Pride, the "inspired by a true story" tale of Philadelphia swimming coach Jim Ellis, but in its first scenes, at least, it deserves some credit for doing the unexpected.

  by Keith Phipps | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  63
  It's called Pride, and, while it's neither as socially urgent as "Freedom Writers" nor as danceable and soapy as "Stomp the Yard," it's better acted and tougher to resist

  by Wesley Morris | Read Full Review »
• [+] Miami Herald
  
  63
  A measured, magnificently understated and intense performance by Academy Award nominee Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow, Crash) as Ellis gives Pride its fire and heart.

  by Connie Ogle | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  63
  Worth seeing, not only because it shows how an ordinary man can do something extraordinary, but because it allows audiences the opportunity to watch an extraordinary actor in a performance that could have been rote, but instead is nuanced and intelligent.

  by Claudia Puig | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  60
  The movie serves up the expected ratio of setbacks to triumphs and closes with video footage of the real Jim Ellis. But when sinewy young idealists glide through water to the tune of "I'll Take You There," the heart still leaps.

  by Matt Zoller Seitz | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  60
  Despite a second half that feels more routine than its first, Pride is a definite crowd-pleaser.

  by Dennis Harvey | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Magazine
  
  60
  This is familiar terrain jazzed up by unfamiliar voices--principally Terrence Howard and his high-pitched, singsong drawl. You don't quite know what he's thinking; he might even be demented. But he keeps you watching and guessing.

  by David Edelstein | Read Full Review »
• [+] Village Voice
  
  60
  If nothing else, Pride has the best sports-film soundtrack ever--Philly funk and soul, '70s style. And hell, that'll get ya wet.

  by Robert Wilonsky | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  50
  Canned racial uplift and tear-streaked faces abound, though they're offset somewhat by a nicely funky blaxploitation vibe.

  by J.R. Jones | Read Full Review »