Invictus (2009)
New York Times - 33 minutes agoMorgan Freeman plays Nelson Mandela in “Invictus,” Clint Eastwood’s new film.
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Morgan Freeman plays Nelson Mandela in “Invictus,” Clint Eastwood’s new film.
The true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team, Francois Pienaar, to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid.
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So how true is Invictus? A reporter who covered apartheid South Africa examines fact and hype in Clint Eastwood's latest movie.
Invictus » Opens Friday at area theaters; rated PG-13 for thematic elements and brief strong language; 100 minutes. There's half a good movie in director Clint Eastwood's melodramatic telling of how Nelson Mandela, in his early days as South Africa's president after the fall of
Leigh Taylor-Young and I participated recently in the Parliament of the World's Religions in Melbourne, Australia. Nelson Mandela attended that Parliament as well and spoke of his "debt" to religion throughout his life.
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Recommended Clint Eastwood's Invictus is so skillfully done and has such honest intentions that it is easy to be overwhelmed by it, and consequently overlook its flaws. A full appreciation of it also requires a tamping down, or at least a readjustment, of one's expectations; when a viewer hears that Morgan Freeman is playing Nelson Mandela for Eastwood, well, one doesn't expect a sports movie ...
Nelson Mandela made it clear that Morgan Freeman was the man he would want to play him in a film.
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Director Clint Eastwood has explored the pain and purpose of ordinary people put in extraordinary situations from the boxing ring of "Million Dollar Baby" to the bloody South Pacific in "Flags of Our Fathers" to a local neighborhood in
Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman reteam for a drama about a landmark South African rugby tournament directed by Eastwood and starring Freeman in a different sort of tough-guy role: Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s benevolent but steely first post-apartheid president.
Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman and Clint Eastwood join in a tale of the rebirth of a nation.
In Invictus, director Clint Eastwood elicits fine performances from Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon , but can we ever really doubt the outcome?
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