42: The Jackie Robinson Story
The movie tells the story of Jackie Robinson from his signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers organization in 1945 to his historic 1947 rookie season as he becomes the first African-American player to break the baseball color barrier.
28 November 1969, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
7 July 1976, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA
18 August 1942, Houston, Texas, USA
9 March 1973, Suffern, New York, USA
9 January 1965, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
23 October 1991, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
20 June 1972, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
25 November 1936, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
22 March 1972, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
13 July 1942, Chicago, Illinois, USA
May 07, 2014
Boseman gives a potentially star-making performance, while Ford, at 70, segues smoothly from firm-jawed action hero to elder-statesman character actor.
May 07, 2014
It's not easy to play a stoic, but Boseman anchors the movie, and when he smiles, 42, already such a warm story of such cold times, gets even brighter.
March 07, 2017
This honorable and enlightening film pays due respect to Jackie Robinson -- a sports legend and courageous American hero.
May 07, 2014
It comes with a smooth burnished period look, and it tells a smooth and burnished story. Helgeland has good intentions but not much new to say about a real-life hero who wears his nobility and torment mostly as symbols.
April 08, 2016
The Jackie Robinson story has always been more than deserving of a gaudy big-screen telling, and Helgeland is happy to oblige.
May 07, 2014
A dramatization of what Robinson did and what it required, 42 will not disappoint.
May 07, 2014
The style of the film, lush and traditional, is nothing special, but the takeaway, a daily struggle for dignity, is impossibly moving.
May 07, 2014
A hero without imperfections can be problematic. But Jackie's nobility is more than well-earned, and tarnishing it for the sake of balance would be churlish. Besides, there's enough evil at loose among the white characters.
April 22, 2013
A square, uninventive, but detailed and stirring bio-pic devoted to the two years in an athlete's life that changed a nation.
May 07, 2014
As a fond gesture to a country coming out of the dark ages, 42 is a good-hearted attempt at Robinson's story regardless of the historical realities it chose to gloss over.
May 07, 2014
The story isn't much more than a hit parade of "Shut up, racist" moments -- Alan Tudyk's opposing manager just oozes with venomous talk -- but its blunt force is enough to get the job done.
