The Great Debaters
$15 Regular
$11 for Members
Genre
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Release Year
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Director
Denzel WashingtonProducer
Todd Black, Kate Forte, Nesim Hason, Joe Roth, Oprah WinfreyCast
Denzel Washington, Jurnee SmollettCountry
USARuntime
126 minRating
PG-13Accessibility
June 19 Only!
Poet and professor Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington) teaches at the predominately black Wiley College in 1935 Texas. He decides to start a debate team, something nearly unheard of at a black college. While at first he butts heads with the influential father (Forest Whitaker) of one of his best debators, eventually he is able to form a team of strong-minded, intelligent young students, and they become the first black debate team to challenge Harvard’s prestigious debate champions.
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