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The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American college students into a historical powerhouse that took on the Harvard elite.
Theatrical
Dec 27, 2007
Box Office
$30.2M
Budget
$15.0M
Return
2.0x
DVD / Blu-ray
May 13, 2008
Director
Writers
Jeffrey Porro, Robert Eisele
Producers
Harvey Weinstein, David Crockett, Melody Fowler
Music
Studio
Marshall Production, The Weinstein Company, Harpo Films
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Cast
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Denzel Whitaker
James Farmer Jr.
Denzel Washington
Melvin B. Tolson
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Nate Parker
Henry Lowe
Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Samantha Booke
Forest Whitaker
Dr. James Farmer Sr.
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Kimberly Elise
Pearl Farmer
J
Jermaine Williams
Hamilton Burgess
G
Gina Ravera
Ruth Tolson
J
John Heard
Sheriff Dozier
D
Devyn A. Tyler
Helen Farmer
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Trenton McClain Boyd
Nathaniel Farmer
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Ritchie Montgomery
Deputy
J
Jackson Walker
Pig Owner
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Tim Parati
Pig Farmer
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Robert X. Golphin
Dunbar Reed
J
Justice Leak
Harland Osbourne
Glen Powell
Harvard Debater #1
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Brian Smiar
Harvard Dean
D
Damien Leake
Wilson
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Stephen Rider
Paul Quinn Debater #2
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Quotes
See all →The Impact of Poverty on Human Dignity
Henry Lowe
A brilliant young woman I know was asked once to support her argument in favor of social welfare. She named the most powerful source imaginable: the look in a mother's face when she cannot feed her children. Can you look that hungry child in the eyes? See the blood on his feet from working barefoot in the cotton fields. Or do you ask his baby sister with her belly swollen from hunger if she cares about her daddy's work ethics?
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Call for Immediate Equality and Justice
Samantha Booke
The state is currently spending five times more for the education for a white child than it is fitting to educate a colored child. That means better textbooks for that child than for that child. I say that's a shame, but my opponent says today is not the day for whites and coloreds to go to the same college. To share the same campus. To walk into the same classroom. Well, would you kindly tell me when that day is gonna come? Is it going to come tomorrow? Is it going to come next week? In a hundred years? Never? No, the time for justice, the time for freedom, and the time for equality is always, is always right now!
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