Race
PG-13 | Biography, Drama, Sport | 19 February 2016 (USA)
Jesse Owens' quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
Director:
Stephen HopkinsStars:
Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Eli GoreeStoryline
After Jeremiah Mahoney successfully engineered a U.S boycott by the AAU of the 1936 Olympics, the Jewish organizer of the Games, Theodor Lewald, visited the U. S. to beg for U. S. participation knowing full well that Jesse Owens had broken 4 world records in 1935 and was expected to have outstanding achievements in Berlin, as he did. Aryan supremacy had nothing to do with it. An Aryan, Luz Long, in fact coached Jesse Owens in the Broad Jump and won the Silver for Germany to Jesse's Gold Medal for the U. S. For his entire life, Jesse spoke only favorably about Germany and its people who treated him with great respect. Blacks in Berlin in 1936 could sit anywhere on a bus; stay at any hotel, eat in any restaurant, use any lavatory. It is only because Avery Brundage, at Lewald's insistence, overcame Mahoney and the AAU and obtained a re-vote that Jesse had the opportunity to shine. The organizers of the Berlin Olympics went to extraordinary lengths to give Jesse Owens and other Negro.
Race Movie Review
'Tumbledown' Starring Rebecca Hall And Jason Sudeikis After proving his skills as a leading comedic actor on the big screen in studio comedies like "Horrible Bosses" and indies like the great "Sleeping With Other People," Jason Sudeikis is taking the time to show off his dramatic side with slightly more serious material. Along with the upcoming Jesse Owens biopic "Race," Sudeikis will be starring alongside Rebecca Hall in the indie "Tumbledown," which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last year. Sudeikis plays Andrew, a music scholar heading to Maine in order to write the biography of a late musician from the area. The only thing standing in his way is a protective widow (Hall), who agrees to the biography only if she can join as co-writer. This compromise soon leads to unlikely friendship that soon evolves into something more romantic. Starz Digital will release "Tumbledown" in New.
