Race

– Based on the incredible true story of Jesse Owens, the legendary athletic superstar whose quest to b..

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Movie
Rating:
7.10 / 10
Duration:
2 Hours and 14 Minutes
Release Year:
2016
Race (2016)

Based on the incredible true story of Jesse Owens, the legendary athletic superstar whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy. Starring Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Jeremy Irons, Carice Van Houten and William Hurt - Race is an enthralling film about courage, determination, tolerance, and friendship, and an inspiring drama about one man's fight to become an Olympic legend.

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Race (2016) - Trailer

Release Date:

19 Feb 2016

Language:

English, German

MPAA Content-Rating:
PG-13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned

Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. Parents are urged to be cautious. Some material may be inappropriate for pre-teenagers.

Director:

Stephen Hopkins

Writer:

Joe Shrapnel, Anna Waterhouse

Main Actors:

Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Eli Goree, Shanice Banton

Plot:

In the 1930s, Jesse Owens is a young man who is the first in his family to go to college. Going to Ohio State to train under its track and field coach, Larry Snyder, the young African American athlete quickly impresses with his tremendous potential that suggests Olympic material. However, as Owens struggles both with the obligations of his life and the virulent racism against him, the question of whether America would compete at all at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany is being debated vigorously. When the American envoy finds a compromise persuasive with the Third Reich to avert a boycott, Owens has his own moral struggle about going. Upon resolving that issue, Owens and his coach travel to Berlin to participate in a competition that would mark Owens as the greatest of America's Olympians even as the German film director, Leni Riefenstahl, locks horns with her country's Propaganda Minister, Josef Goebbels, to film the politically embarrassing fact for posterity.

Awards:

6 wins & 6 nominations.

Gross profit:

$14,319,394

Production:

Focus Features

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
61%
Metacritic:
56%