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Invictus (2009)

New York Times - 33 minutes ago

Morgan Freeman plays Nelson Mandela in “Invictus,” Clint Eastwood’s new film.

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MOVIE PREVIEW: "Invictus"
Kokomo Tribune - 2 hours 29 minutes ago
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.
'Princess' poised to reign at boxoffice
The Hollywood Reporter - 17 minutes ago
VIDEO: "Invictus" is the weekend's only wide opener, but the expanding "The Princess and the Frog" is expected to top the boxoffice.
The Real Story of 'Invictus'
Newsweek - Thu Dec 10, 10:28 am ET
So how true is Invictus? A reporter who covered apartheid South Africa examines fact and hype in Clint Eastwood's latest movie.
5-minute movie reviews: 'Invictus,' 'Crude,' 'The Maid'
The Salt Lake Tribune - Thu Dec 10, 4:56 pm ET
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
John Morton: Spirit of Peace in All: Part I
The Huffington Post - Thu Dec 10, 12:14 pm ET
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.
Oslo on alert to welcome Nobel 'war president'
AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 10:21 pm ET
"War president" Barack Obama was due Thursday to accept his controversial Nobel Peace Prize amid Norway's biggest ever police security operation.
Invictus
DVD Talk - Thu Dec 10, 4:04 pm ET
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 ...
Eastwood, Freeman back in saddle for `Invictus'
AP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 11:09 am ET
Nelson Mandela made it clear that Morgan Freeman was the man he would want to play him in a film.
Obama defends US wars as he accepts peace prize
San Francisco Chronicle - Thu Dec 10, 1:40 pm ET
Newly enshrined among the world's great peacemakers, President Barack Obama offered a striking defense of war. Eleven months into his presidency, a fresh Obama doctrine. Evil must be vigorously opposed, he declared as he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on...
President Obama is Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
12 FOX Mankato - Thu Dec 10, 3:29 pm ET
President Obama joins the ranks of Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Junio read more
Sports angle saps power from 'Invictus'
The Fresno Bee - Thu Dec 10, 5:05 pm ET
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
The unconquered lions of 'Invictus'
The Canton Repository - Thu Dec 10, 2:45 pm ET
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.
Movie review: 'Invictus' shows rebirth of a nation
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Thu Dec 10, 4:57 pm ET
Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman and Clint Eastwood join in a tale of the rebirth of a nation.
Clint Eastwood 's 'Invictus' is a predictable pleasure
St. Petersburg Times - Thu Dec 10, 4:53 pm ET
In Invictus, director Clint Eastwood elicits fine performances from Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon , but can we ever really doubt the outcome?
Obama: Others "More Deserving" of Nobel
CBS News - Thu Dec 10, 8:00 am ET
In Oslo for Award Ceremony, President Acknowledges Irony of Accepting Prize as he Ramps Up Afghan War