
Tough Coach Duke Goulding leaves nothing untried to lead his almost exclusively white boarding school basketball team, the Hawks, to victory after victory, but his own son Hugo feels his polyvalent technical excellence and tireless efforts -which require using stimulants- are not getting anything like the recognition he deserves, especially when coach gives the best player award to Odin James, the only black teammate, even saying he loves Odin like his own son, who in turn on... (Full plot summary below)
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Tough Coach Duke Goulding leaves nothing untried to lead his almost exclusively white boarding school basketball team, the Hawks, to victory after victory, but his own son Hugo feels his polyvalent technical excellence and tireless efforts -which require using stimulants- are not getting anything like the recognition he deserves, especially when coach gives the best player award to Odin James, the only black teammate, even saying he loves Odin like his own son, who in turn only calls super-rich Michael Cassio to share in the honor. So Hugo, who is liked by everyone, decides to set up the boys who stole his glory, and he knows a cocky adolescent's weak points are his pride and his girl. This Dixie Jago schemes to bring down a black Othello and his Cassio, playing into the poisonous power of jealousy, however badly this also hurts their loved ones and the whole team...
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| Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)Jeffrey WesthoffWatching these events carried out by teenagers is not tragic but sad, a needless waste of young lives with no new insights to justify their deaths. |
| San Diego MetropolitanJean LowerisonI am happy to report that O does not do violence to, nor dumb down, its important themes. |
| Montreal Film JournalKevin N. LaforestAnd then there's Josh Hartnett, what can I say... Who knew he had such a performance in him? |
| Mark Reviews MoviesMark DujsikTakes a tragic phenomenon and puts it both in a universal and intelligent context. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenHartnett is electric in his portrayal of this truly evil, twisted character. |
| Sacramento News & ReviewJim LaneIf nothing else, it makes a good intro to the play for high school English classes. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonWithout the poetry, a retelling of Othello becomes paved with believability problems -- especially for a modern, movie-fed audience. |
| ComingSoon.netBlake WrightThe performances of Harnett, Stiles and relative newcomer Phifer are solid throughout the film. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyLong on the Shelf, O is well directed and decently acted, but its narrative, while more or less faithful to Shakespeare, tried to do too much, pushing the characters and their emotions to unreasonable and unconvincing extremes. |
| Slant MagazineEd GonzalezShakespeare's Othello meets Columbine in this messy little teen drama. |