Race

Released: February 19, 2016

Starring: Stephen James as Jesse Owens
Jason Sudeikis as Larry Snyder

Directed By: Stephen Hopkins

Written By: Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse


Jesse Owens is an aspiring track and field athlete in the early 1930's. He has just been invited to attend the University of Ohio in 1933. When he gets there he meets Coach Larry Snyder, a coach who has not had a winning season in some years, think he found the missing piece to his team in Jesse. They soon start dreaming of the Olympics in Berlin that are coming up in 1936. during these few years, however, that American Olympic Comity is talking about pulling out of the Berlin Olympics because of the "purification" of Germany by Hitler that is taking place at the time. That is when Avery Brundage is sent as an ambassador to Germany to make sure the German Government will allow Jews and blacks to compete in the games. However, a scandal is soon set up when Avery agrees with the German Olympic Commissioner that america will support "Germany's Cause" if they allow these rules to happen. When the Olympics do come around, and Owens wins every event he competes in, the Germans are embarrassed because "a lesser race" is beating the pure German race.


This is by far the best movie that I have seen so far this year. When I first was going to see the movie I knew it was going to be about the life of Jesse Owens but I did not know it was going to only be only his college and Olympic years. I learned a lot about tensions during the Olympic Games during that time frame and how they made agreement for everyone to participate. The biggest highlight in this movie was the acting. Stephen James was excellent as Jesse Owens! I mean didn't over play or anything. However, my biggest surprise was Jason Sudeikis! We all know him from comedy movies like Horrible Bosses but I did not expect to see him in a drama and I did not expect him to be that good!