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The Boys in the Boat is a 2023 American biographical sports drama film produced and directed by George Clooney from a screenplay by Mark L. Smith, based on the 2013 book by Daniel James Brown. The film follows the University of Washington rowing team, and their quest to compete in the 1936 Summer Olympics .
The Boys in the Boat is about the University of Washington eight-oared rowing crew that represented the United States in rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's eight in Berlin, and narrowly beat out Italy and Germany to win the gold medal. The main character is Joe Rantz. Rantz had a tough time growing up and was abandoned by his family ...
"The Boys in the Boat," a movie that may remind you of "Chariots of Fire," is a kind of WASP daydream of a sports movie. It could almost be a late-'90s Matt Damon movie, only with less interior ...
BITB_21713. It took more than a decade, but a film adaptation of Daniel James Brown’s bestselling nonfiction novel Boys in the Boat, directed by George Clooney, premieres on Christmas day.The ...
Steeped in old-fashioned virtues and a feel-good underdog story, “The Boys in the Boat” isn’t bad, but it doesn’t it ever navigate its way out of the shallow end of the sports-movie pool ...
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Director George Clooney both begins and ends “The Boys in the Boat ” on a sun-dappled lake. Telling the true-life story of the University of Washington rowing team, a scrappy group that ...
In 1936, he won the Olympic gold medal rowing in the stroke seat of the American boat in the eights competition. [4] His role in the University of Washington eight and their Olympic victory is explored in the 2013 non-fiction book by author Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat. [3] During WWII Hume served in the merchant marine. Post-war ...