This Oprah-produced inspirational drama came out late last year. It was one of those movies that I felt I should see but didn’t really want to. It got mediocre reviews, but the subject and time period got me interested so I ultimately put it in my Netflix queue. And boy am I glad that I did. It’s a very solid film. Denzel Washington, who also directed, is amazing and the kids who play the debaters were also outstanding. One thing that bugged me, though, was that one of the kids had a small camera that he brought along on the road to make home movies. I didn’t know that people had home movie cameras in the 1930s, when this was set. That’s an anachronism, right?
3/5