The Boys in the Boat is a sports drama based on the #1 New York Times bestselling non-fiction novel written by Daniel James Brown. The film, directed by George Clooney, is about the 1936 University of Washington rowing team that competed for gold at the Summer Olympics in Berlin. This inspirational true story follows a group of underdogs at the height of the Great Depression as they are thrust into the spotlight and take on elite rivals from around the world. Believe in the impossible. Believe in each other.
123 min | Biography, Drama, Sport, Docudrama, Water Sport, Coming-Of-Age | 2023 | Color
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Love the story. BUT.....
Great story. Love how the characters developed. BUT. There could have been in the closing credits a review of their collegiate accomplishments. And also how each team member did in life. Film felt unended. You invest the time into the plot and into the characters and you don't get to see how they panned out. The best movies let you know how the characters were in life. This team accomplished a lot in college and most went on to lead great accomplishments in their life. Why not give your audience a nice closure. A feel for how their journey panned out for them. A feel for how the 4 years of rowing enriched them and helped them grow.
Wonderful motion picture, but do read the book!
We waited so long for this movie to be made, ever since Daniel James Brown wrote the story. A serendipitous set of events led to the story even being recorded, as Judy Rantz Willman just happened to have Daniel James Brown as a neighbor, and eventually persuaded Brown to visit her father, who was in hospice care. What he thought was a social visit, she saw as a book about to be written. His initial skepticism evaporated quickly, when Joe began sharing his story. In Joe's remaining couple of months of life, Brown met with Rantz several times to begin creating the outline for the book. He then met with the families of the other crew members, followed by two years of further research, aided by Judy Rantz. The eight were amazing people, accustomed to hardship and personal challenges. For example, when Don Hume's family moved from Anacortes to Olympia, Don tossed his belongings into a rowboat and paddled down Puget Sound to his new home, roughly 100 miles away. Look at a map! A multiple-sport letterman in high school, he had also placed third in a state pianist's competition. And Joe Rantz was such a standout athlete in gymnastics at Roosevelt High School, that Coach Ulbrickson already had his eye on him then. So, what did we miss in the movie? Joe's difficult pre-college life is mostly absent, and worth the read by itself. We also miss Joe's wanderings around Berlin, where he witnesses Germany's horrific treatment of its Jewish population, under its totalitarian leader. Like nearly everything from Hollywood, a bit of romance is thrown in to add spice, but the story shines, throughout the picture. Here and there a bit of drama is added for effect, but personalities presented by the actors conform closely with who they represented. George Pocock really was the sage he seemed in the movie. Don Hume comes across as a bit socially awkward in the movie. A good friend met him several years ago where she worked, and described him as, uh, gruff. The fearless audacity of the team comes through in a story told only in the book. Before sailing to Germany for the Olympics, the team decides to drop in, unannounced, on Franklin Roosevelt at his home. Although they didn't find the president at home, they did spend the evening there. The story behind this movie is too remarkably wonderful to be fiction. See the movie, but by all means read the book!
A movie worth seeing
After in-law sister saw it and just love it, I figured why not go see it. I know nothing about about the sport but the way the story was told, and the fact there were no big name types in the movie it made it a lot more believable. As a history nut . I knew about a lot of countries that beat Hitler and what became of his athletes that lost. Yes the lines were a tad flat and alot of back story would be better on all the boys. I caught my self getting really into the training of aspects of the boys, PS, I use a rowing machine to try to keep the fat down. It was so enjoyable to watch a movie that was more about the effort and not about who can make the most money. Go see it.
