Following the great achievements and effort he had done throughout his professional life in Whiley collage in Texas, Melvin B. Tolson, who is always tends to learn the students how to have a new thinking and to make their awareness, by making the first debate team in 1935, the thing that improves education clearly.
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This is a wonderfully acted and directed movie, that has something important to sayDecember 28, 2007
The Great Debaters is well-acted, deeply felt and delivers a positive message about the importance of education.December 28, 2007
The film may be manipulative in its construction, and cliché-ridden in some of the incidents it recounts, but it has a good, large heart.January 29, 2008
Despite its transparent manipulations, the film is more decent than it deserves to be, particularly when the kids step up to the podium and get passionateDecember 28, 2007
...The Great Debaters soars with words and feeling.April 10, 2008
The acting is great and care is taken to develop these characters into people we can root for.March 17, 2008
Enough fictional liberties were taken with The Great Debaters to make it fit neatly on the inspirational genre shelf, but it's grounded in enough reality to excuse Eisle's we-shall-overcome contrivancesMay 02, 2008
There's a real organic sense in the film of how young minds can be nurtured and energized way beyond sex, sports and slacker attitude, into caring and evolving kid works-in-progress. And how debating can be pretty cool too, who knew?June 01, 2008
I was having mediocre day and I walked out of the movie totally pumped up and ready for the rest of the day, even though it was 10pm at night.January 03, 2008
The Great Debaters succeeds in bringing a lump to the throat without, as is de rigueur these days, insulting our intelligence.September 08, 2008
Washington directed as well as starred, and it is clear he has no trouble wearing both hats at once