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Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (2008)
Tommy Lee Jones (Actor), Brian Dowling (Actor), Kevin Rafferty (Director) | Rated: NR | Format: DVD
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Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Brian Dowling, Vic Gatto, Frank Champi, J.P. Goldsmith
Directors: Kevin Rafferty
Format: Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: KINO INTERNATIONAL
DVD Release Date: August 4, 2009
Run Time: 104 minutes
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
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WONDERFUL... An Irresistible Human Story And As Fine A Documentary About Football As HOOP DREAMS Was On Basketball. --Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
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An incredible true story that unfolds like a ripping good yarn... With an uproarious, impossible Hollywood ending (Andrew O Hehir, Salon.com), Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 is filmmaker Kevin Rafferty s (The Atomic Cafe) acclaimed documentary depicting one of the most legendary games in the history of sports. Harvard Stadium November 23, 1968. With Vietnam raging, Nixon in the White House, and issues from civil rights to women's lib dividing the country, Harvard and Yale, both teams undefeated for the first time since 1909, meet for the annual climax of the Ivy League football season. On the blue-blooded Yale campus, gridiron fever has made local celebrities out of a Yale team led by quarterback Brian Dowling, who hadn t lost a game that he finished since the 7th grade, and who was the role model for Doonesbury s B.D. At civil unrest scarred Harvard, a melting pot team of working class players, antiwar activists, and a decorated Vietnam vet set aside their differences for the Big Game. Together, Yale and Harvard stage an unforgettable football contest that baffled even their own coaches. Using vintage game footage and bracingly honest contemporary interviews with the players from both sides, including Harvard lineman and future Oscar? winner Tommy Lee Jones (No Country for Old Men), Rafferty crafts an alternately suspenseful, hilarious, and poignant portrait of American lives, American sports, and American ideals both tested on the playing field and transformed by turbulent times.
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- Bonus Interviews (73 min.) Additional interview excerpts not included in the film, the players provide a deeper look at the season, the game, and its aftermath.
- Theatrical Trailer
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5.0 out of 5 stars Not just for alumni, April 14, 2009
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This review is from: Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (DVD) I was in high school in 1968 and remember the game and its legend well. My wife knew nothing of the game. We both loved the movie. Rafferty skillfully weaves interviews with players with footage of the game and narration in an insightful and entertaining fashion. He also has a remarkably wry sense of humor. It's not a comedy but I found the audience erupting into laughter more often than at most mainstream comedies.
I saw it at a movie theater but I think it should be great on DVD at home.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Delightful, Captivating Film, July 18, 2009
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This review is from: Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (DVD) I know very little about football. My girlfriend knows even less. Yet we were both captivated and delighted by this film.
Aside from getting caught up in the unfolding action of a football game that is more incredible than any fictionalized game I've seen, we really enjoyed the experience of the 60's that the film evoked through the stories told by the players. These are the most thoughtful, witty football players imaginable, and they drew us in with their frankness, insights, humor, and the reflectiveness that the 40 years of life-experience since the game have given them.
No matter who speaks in the movie, whether it's the guy who keeps wanting to hurt people to get them out of the game, the "aloof," introspective second string quarterback who can throw the ball 50 yards with either hand, Tommy Lee Jones, who was roommates with Al Gore and is about to hang up his helmet for good and move to Hollywood, or the Jewish player whose father tells him to play on the Sabbath, all the personal stories are beautifully edited together by the filmmaker to make an engrossing tale that's as much about interesting people living through a dramatic time as it is about a football game.
I think this film will continue to be around for a long time to come.
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5.0 out of 5 stars When a Tie Is a Win, January 9, 2010
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This review is from: Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (DVD) This documentary film about a 1968 football game between rivals Harvard and Yale is great fun and also opens a little window on "The Sixties" (which really went from around 1965 to 1974 as one of the players points out). Filmmaker Kevin Rafferty (The Atomic Cafe (Collector's Edition)) tracked down Harvard and Yale players some four decades after the game and skillfully mixes game footage with the player interviews. The result is 73 captivating minutes of sports, social commentary, and even celebrity watching.
How is a tie a win? Both teams were unbeaten going into the final game of the year, but Yale had future Dallas Cowboy star Calvin Hill and a number 16 ranking in the polls (Yale? 16th in the land?!). Yale goes out to a big lead and has the game well in hand until odd things begin to happen. Still down 29-13 with a minute to play, Harvard manages to score two touchdowns plus two two-point conversions in the final 42 seconds to "win" the game, 29-29. (Harvard was aided by Yale's astonishing lack of an onside kick return play that helped Harvard regain possession of the ball and begin its final drive.)
Football aside, the film features Tommie Lee Jones (No Country for Old Men), then an all-conference lineman for Harvard and Al Gore's roommate! Yale's QB, Brian Dowling was the inspiration for Doonesbury's B.D. And George W. Bush gets a mention for hanging from the goal posts in a state of inebriation after an earlier Yale win at Princeton. Another player (now bald on top and thick in the middle) was dating a shy and reserved Meryl Streep. The Vietnam War always in the background and sometimes took center stage - at least at Harvard. At least one player was a vet who had survived Khe Sanh while another was a member of the SDS. Casual sex had been discovered with the invention of the Pill - every date offered at least a possibility of 'going all the way'.
What really makes the film, however, is the fact that several of these former players are very good story tellers, whether it is the deft humor and witty insight of J.P. Goldsmith or the scary honesty of linebacker Mike Bouscaren, who candidly admits he attempted to injure the Harvard QB, but only got a well-deserved personal foul. (Oddly, he also asserted with absolute certitude that he had knocked a Harvard running back out of the game by using his helmet as a weapon and spearing the player's ankle. The game film clearly shows Bouscaren is nowhere near the action when that player is injured. Bouscaren had created his own false memory!) Compelling times, good stories well-told, and a wild game on the gridiron make for a highly entertaining an stimulating film.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Worth it.
Great stuff.
The game footage is excellent as is the audio, and the interspersed interviews well-placed. The players recollections make the movie, with J. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Tom Flynn
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent film
A very entertaining film, with exciting film footage interspersed with player interviews. It may seem at first like a time capsule, of more interest to former college students or... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Amateur des arts
5.0 out of 5 stars On the Edge of Your Seat
Although you know the game's score from the title, there's an amazing amount of suspense in this documentary film, right down to the last minute and a half, when Harvard is two... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Martha Moffett
5.0 out of 5 stars Fasinating metaphor for the late 1960's.
This movie has a great football game with a Hollywood style ending between the underdog Harvard Crimson and the heavily favored and #16 rated Yale Bulldogs. Read more
Published 14 months ago by GaCracker
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent DVD!
This DVD was super interesting and enjoyable to watch - and I am not even a huge football fan!! The interviews of the players were very good, as well as the footage of the... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Teresa
5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie, even if you went to Yale
I actually attended this Game my Freshman year at Yale. This movie is a great narrative of the game and the characters in it, though it exaggerates the "wealthy" Yalies vs. Read more
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First, it was a little weird watching this video a few days ago and then watching the US vs. England World Cup 2010 first round game. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Harvard beats Yale 29-29
Great footage of the game. Even better were the story lines of the individuals. Who would ever think that Khe San vietnam, and Meryll Streep, would have a connection to the GAME... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Richard Fidler
1.0 out of 5 stars Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
Always double check your purchases. I didn't know I was buying a Blu Ray version. This movie is worthless to me.
Published 19 months ago by Robert W. Maurer
3.0 out of 5 stars Not quite what I was hoping for
I too read the glowing reviews of this film, both here and elsewhere. Thankfully I rented, rather than purchased, it. Read more
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