The Express PG
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 10 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 20, 2009
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Dennis Quaid & Rob Brown | |
Performer: | Omar Benson Miller, Clancy Brown, Charles S. Dutton, Darrin Dewitt Henson & Nelsan Ellis | |
Directed by | Gary Fleder | |
Screenwriting by | Jeffrey Lieber, Charles Leavitt, John Lee Hancock & Scott Williams | |
Composition by | Mark Isham | |
Produced by | John Davis | |
Director of Photography: | Kramer Morgenthau | |
Executive Production by | Derek Dauchy |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 75/100 --
While there's nothing remarkable about the way director Gary Fleder has brought The Express to the screen, this is a solid film that does justice to Davis' legacy.
Apollo Guide
Rating: 1/5 --
The screenplay is stewed in such pieties, served up as warm and homely as apple pie - only there's no taste to it.
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Independent (UK)
Rating: 2.5/5 --
At times The Express couldn't decide whether it was telling a story of racial tensions, a general inspirational sports film or the tragic biography of Ernie Davis
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7M Pictures
Rating: 3/6 --
The sports-movie template is capable of absorbing any story and delivering the same uplift.
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Time Out
Rating: 2.0/5 --
The Express is running on two rails at the same time. There's sentiment, which is true. And there's sentimentality, which is not. At its best, The Express is a moving tribute; at its worst, it's conventional manipulation.
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Fayetteville Free Weekly
Rating: 3/5 --
While never as trailblazing as its subject, The Express is a worthy addition to the lengthy canon of sports biopics.
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Empire Magazine
At times stirring, inspiring and thoughtful, THE EXPRESS tells the story of football player Ernie Davis...
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
As the first African American to receive college football's prestigious Heisman trophy, Ernie Davis (Rob Brown) is one of the most inspiring--and tragic--figures in the game (he died of leukemia at 23, before his first NFL game) His rise to athletic stardom coincides with the birth of the civil rights movement, and despite setbacks like a speech impediment, biased referees, and fear of white mob reprisals, Davis grabs the glory for a better America. Dennis Quaid plays Davis's coach and mentor, Ben Schwartzwalder, who lays on the discipline and training, first yielding to racist pressures, then supporting and spurring Davis to his peerless heights for Syracuse University's Orangemen. THE EXPRESS would need to work hard to fumble this ball, and it doesn't, making a smooth cinematic touchdown with heart, intelligence, guts, rapid-fire editing, and a minimum of cliché. The gridiron action is vividly and excitingly rendered as is a superb supporting cast, most notably Omar Benson Miller as Davis's wisecracking teammate. Plus, one can't go wrong with having seasoned sports movie go-to guy Quaid as Schwartzwalder; he's got this stuff so down, he could get an audience to stand up and cheer just by reading a grocery list. What sticks in the mind later though is the joy in watching these characters grow, as athletes and as people. And as they mature, they take all of America with them.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 42,472
- UPC: 025195024525
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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