Woodlawn

(2015)

★ 6.9 IMDb · 212 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2015

Runtime: 123 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Джон Эрвин, Andrew Erwin

Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Шон Эстин, Джон Войт, Virginia Williams, Brando Eaton, Шерри Шеперд, Nic Bishop, Caleb Castille, Келли Грейсон, Рода Гриффис

Plot

Love and unity in a school torn by racism and hate in the 1970s. A gifted high school football player must learn to embrace his talent and his faith as he battles racial tensions on and off the field.

When Woodlawn High School in Birmingham, Alabama is controversially desegregated in 1973, Tony Nathan, a gifted Black high-school football player, joins the school's predominantly white football team along with several other Black players. The coach, Tandy Gerelds, tells the team to use their shared anger to unite them, but Black and white players clash on and off the field. After a riot at the school, Gerelds consents to allowing traveling sports chaplain Hank Erwin to speak to the team as a "motivational speaker". Hank's speech moves nearly the entire team to accept Hank's invitation to commit their lives to Jesus Christ, and join together in prayer. Gerelds does not accept the invitation, and is unsure what to make of the event.