Focus Features | Release Date: February 19, 2016
6.5
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yrcrazyFeb 20, 2016
As one might expect, over dramatisation and historical innacuracies run wild within this and the dialogue is dull. Do not even bother watching this movie.
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CrimsonFlushFeb 21, 2016
Another sterilized, sugar coated Hollywood movie about race relations to make white people feel good. Characters are quite shallow and uninteresting and doesn't tell us anything about real Owens. Jesse Owens wished he had it that good backAnother sterilized, sugar coated Hollywood movie about race relations to make white people feel good. Characters are quite shallow and uninteresting and doesn't tell us anything about real Owens. Jesse Owens wished he had it that good back then when lynching was a common thing for just talking back to a white person. Expand
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