Remember the Titans (2000)
Remember the Titans (2000), an American biographical sports comedy-drama film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Boaz Yakin, tells the story of a high school football team. In 1981, a group of former coaches and players attend a funeral for one of their own. The events leading up to this moment begin ten years earlier in the summer of 1971, when head coach Bill Yoast is leading his white players in summer workouts at T. C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia. However, things take an unexpected turn when Herman Boone is assigned to Yoast’s coaching staff instead. This decision comes as an attempt to ease rising racial tensions and address the fact that all other high schools in Alexandria are still segregated despite the abolishment of segregation laws. As a result, Boone is named the head coach for the school’s football team.
Initially, Boone declines the opportunity, feeling that it would not be fair to Yoast, a well-respected coach who has been nominated for the Virginia High School Hall of Fame. However, after witnessing the impact it has on the black community, he eventually agrees. When Yoast reveals his plans to accept a head coaching position elsewhere to his white players, they vow to boycott the team if he is not their coach. Concerned about the students losing out on potential scholarships, Yoast changes his mind and accepts Boone’s offer to be the defensive coordinator. During Boone’s first team meeting in the school gymnasium with mostly black students, Yoast and a few white students arrive unexpectedly. He informs Boone of his decision but is met with a warning from Boone that this is his team and he will not tolerate any attempts to undermine him.
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Cast:  Denzel WashingtonCoach Herman Boone  Will PattonCoach Bill Yoast  Wood HarrisJulius Campbell  Ryan HurstGerry Bertier  Donald FaisonPetey Jones  Craig KirkwoodJerry 'Rev' Harris  Ethan SupleeLouie Lastik  Kip PardueRonnie 'Sunshine' Bass  Hayden PanettiereSheryl Yoast  Nicole Ari ParkerCarol Boone  Kate BosworthEmma Hoyt  Ryan GoslingAlan Bosley |
Remember the Titans (2000), an American biographical sports comedy-drama film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Boaz Yakin, tells the story of a high school football team. In 1981, a group of former coaches and players attend a funeral for one of their own. The events leading up to this moment begin ten years earlier in the summer of 1971, when head coach Bill Yoast is leading his white players in summer workouts at T. C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia. However, things take an unexpected turn when Herman Boone is assigned to Yoast’s coaching staff instead. This decision comes as an attempt to ease rising racial tensions and address the fact that all other high schools in Alexandria are still segregated despite the abolishment of segregation laws. As a result, Boone is named the head coach for the school’s football team.
Initially, Boone declines the opportunity, feeling that it would not be fair to Yoast, a well-respected coach who has been nominated for the Virginia High School Hall of Fame. However, after witnessing the impact it has on the black community, he eventually agrees. When Yoast reveals his plans to accept a head coaching position elsewhere to his white players, they vow to boycott the team if he is not their coach. Concerned about the students losing out on potential scholarships, Yoast changes his mind and accepts Boone’s offer to be the defensive coordinator. During Boone’s first team meeting in the school gymnasium with mostly black students, Yoast and a few white students arrive unexpectedly. He informs Boone of his decision but is met with a warning from Boone that this is his team and he will not tolerate any attempts to undermine him.
