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Pride

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

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Andre (Kevin Phillips, foreground)

Pride is “an effective, feel-good sports drama.” Read on:

Pride is the latest “based on a true story,” inspirational sports drama to come to the big-screen. The Sunu Gonera-directed picture stars Oscar nominee Terrence Howard as Jim Ellis, an African-American coach who turned a cluster of troubled inner city teens into a winning swim team in 1970s Philadelphia.

Jim finds work helping to close down the PDR, a dilapidated inner city recreation center. The kids who hang out at the PDR mock him, and he isn’t exactly embraced by the center’s only regular employee — crusty old janitor Elston (Bernie Mac, in his first truly dramatic role). Upon finding and filling the center’s swimming pool, Jim manages to convince the teens to escape the blistering heat of summer on the basketball court for the cool of the pool. The kids learn soon thereafter that Jim was once an accomplished swimmer; before you can say Remember the Titans, he has formed them into a motley, but competitive team.

Pride follows the novice team’s struggle to take their swim meets seriously, especially after they face the all-white team across town that will become their bitter rivals. (Tom Arnold plays their coach and Clint Eastwood’s son, Scott Reeves, is the racist team bully.) Will Jim lead his kids to victory in the state championship? Or will prejudice and their own internal divisions tear them apart? These questions drive the narrative forward.

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Pride

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

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Reggie (Evan Ross), Hakim (Nate Parker), Andre (Kevin Phillips), Willie (Regine Nehy) and Jim Ellis (Terence Howard) in Pride – 2007

Pride – Trailer

Synopsis: Inspired by the true story of Jim Ellis. An African-American swim coach resurrects an inner-city Philadelphia public pool in the 1970s and recruits troubled neighborhood teens to join his swim team.

Cast: Terrence Howard, Bernie Mac, Michele Adams, Tom Arnold; Directed by: Sunu Gonera

In Theaters: March 23, 2007

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Pride

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

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Synopsis:
The year is 1973, and Jim Ellis (Terrence Howard), a college-educated African-American, can’t find a job. Driven by his love of competitive swimming, Jim fixes up an abandoned recreational pool hall in a Philadelphia slum with the help of Elston (Bernie Mac), a local janitor. But when the pool hall is marked for demolition, Jim fights back—by starting the city’s first African-American swim team.

Recruiting troubled teens from the streets, Jim struggles to transform a motley team of novices into capable swimmers—all in time for the upcoming state championships. But as racism, violence and an unsympathetic city official threaten to tear the team apart, Jim must do everything he can to convince his swimmers that victory, both in and out of the pool, is within their reach…

Cast: Terrence Howard, Bernie Mac, Michele Adams, Tom Arnold; Directed by: Sunu Gonera

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