INVICTUS (2009)
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DESCRIPTION:
He was imprisoned 27 years
for his heroic fight against apartheid. So what does Nelson Mandela do
after he is elected president of South Africa? He rejects revenge, forgives
his oppressors and finds hope of national unity in an unlikely place: the
rugby field Clint Eastwood (the National Board of Review's 2009 Best Director
choice) powerfully directs an uplifting film about a team and a people
inspired to greatness. In a performance that won him NBR's Best Actor Award
and an Oscar nomination, Morgan Freeman portrays Mandela, who asks the
national rugby team captain (best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee Matt Damon)
and his underdog squad to do the impossible and win the World Cup. One
team, one country. The universal language of sports has never spoken
so thrillingly as in Eastwood's Invictus.
RATING: PG-13
STARRING:
Morgan Freeman:
Nelson Mandela
Matt Damon: François
Pienaar
YEAR OF RELEASE: 2009
SCREENWRITER: Anthony Peckham
DIRECTOR: Clint Eastwood
RUNNING TIME: 133 minutes
STUDIO: Warner Brothers
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GIGGLES, GLOBES AND OSCARS
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
ACADEMY AWARDS
(2 nominations and 0 wins)
Best Actor - Morgan Freeman
(nominated)
Best Supporting Actor - Matt Damon
(nominated)
GOLDEN GIGGLES
No awards or nominations given to this film.
GOLDEN GLOBES
(2 nominations and 0 wins)
Best Actor (Drama) - Morgan Freeman
(nominated)
Best Supporting Actor - Matt Damon
(nominated)
Best Director - Clint Eastwood
(nominated)
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This movie is based on the book Playing The Enemy: Nelson
Mandela And The Game That Made A Nation written by Josh Carlin.
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The title of this movie comes from the title of a poem of
the same name written by William Ernest Henley in 1875. The word itself
is latin for "unbeaten".
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When first consulted by Nelson Mandela, he said that the
only person he felt that could accurately portray him was Morgan Freeman,
as a result he was the first person that was asked to play the part. Freeman
himself had been trying for years to adapt Mandela's biography A Long
Walk To Freedom for unsuccessfully for years and jumped at the chance
to play the part. He flew to South Africa and personally asked the former
President permission to play him in the movie.
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Matt Damon met with the real Francois Pienaar and also took
rugby training from Chester Williams, one of the players on the 1996 World
Cup Team.
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