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A Tulsa debate champ is the inspiration for a blockbuster.  "The Great Debaters" is based on the true story of an all black debate team that won the national championship back in the 1930s.

Though some of the key characters in “Debaters” are composites and some of the debates it features likely never took place, the essential story of the film is both remarkable and true.

The debaters are a motley group, including 14-year-old prodigy James Farmer Jr. (the likable Denzel Whitaker), who went on to become a civil rights leader.

Director-star Denzel Washington and producer Oprah Winfrey want to tell an inspirational true story in The Great Debaters. So why cut corners to do it? Washington plays Melvin B.

Based on a true story, the pic follows the 1935 debating team of Wiley College, a small all-black school in Texas, as it rises up to compete white colleges and ultimately gets a shot to go head-to ...

Resolved: The Great Debaters is an emotionally and dramatically satisfying piece of work, solidly crafted and intelligently affecting. Arriving just in time to provide a heaping helping of ...

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Denzel Washington’s The Great Debaters, from a screenplay by Robert Eisele, based on a story by Mr. Eisele and Jeffrey Porro, enlivens and enlightens this chaotically overcrowded movie season ...

The story takes place in 1935 in Marshall, Texas, where Wiley professor Tolson (Washington) selects, trains and polishes four young debaters.

I can hear you yawning already, and I don’t blame you, but The Great Debaters is a based-on-a-true-story drama that actually manages to inspire.

It certainly doesn’t hurt that he has an inspiring true story to work from — Oprah Winfrey liked it so much, her company produced the film.