Baseball season's opening week continues, and today we have this Jackie Robinson biopic from a couple of years ago, starring Chadwick Boseman in a nice, understated performance as the man who changed the game. In many ways this is a straightforward telling of the story, which also stars Harrison Ford as Branch Rickey, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers who recruits Robinson to integrate America's pastime, but the nice thing about this movie is that it shows you how moving and powerful the story itself really is. It may not be surprising, but the true nature of the events still holds tremendous power so many years later, especially when it's so well acted and sensitively told.
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