There are no losers in “Undefeated” [MOVIE REVIEW]
There are no losers in “Undefeated”. “Undefeated” is as magnificent as its subjects – the football coach and his underprivileged student/athletes at Manassas High School in poverty-stricken North Memphis, Tennessee. Sure to draw comparisons to “The Blind Side,” this documentary is the real deal, and the stresses, difficulties and problems, both criminal and familial, of daily life are in full view. This is about a ghetto school, kids on the cusp of a hard-knocks life, the realities of passing kids along through a system that has lost much of its ability to teach, and the proverbial one man (although there are actually several) who can make a difference. There will be few films this year (or any other for that matter) that will chart the successes and failures of its subjects as well as “Undefeated” has. Bill Courtney, a successful Memphis business man, was raised in the home of his single mother, having been abandoned by his father very early in life. No matter what he did or how high he climbed in life, he continued to be haunted by this abandonment, thinking for far too many years that his father had left because of him. Although the pain never left, he eventually realized that…
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