Article: The Great Debaters.(Brief article)(Video recording review)

By Ed Hulse

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> Inspirational if predictable drama distinguished by a bravura performance from Denzel Washington, who also directs.

The Great Debaters has some soaring moments and crackling sequences but is too predictable to rate top honors. Denzel Washington (who also directed) stars as real-life college professor and poet Melvin B. Tolson, under whose leadership the debate team of Wiley College, a small African-American university, defeats mighty USC in a titanic 1935 contest. Not surprisingly, the film takes substantial liberties with the facts and substitutes several real-life debaters with obvious ...

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