Featured Audience Ratings

• Cynthia S

  
  What a good movie. I have always loved a movie that we can cheer for the underdog, and be really happy for how things turn out. Jeffrey Donovan is wonderful in this.

• Dean M

  
  Heartfelt, winning conviction and spirited performances. This is the next true story of the basketball coach in the 1960s, since <i>Glory Road</i>, who coached the girls' sport is really emotional and encourage to support and share of the dream in a school team.… More
  Heartfelt, winning conviction and spirited performances. This is the next true story of the basketball coach in the 1960s, since <i>Glory Road</i>, who coached the girls' sport is really emotional and encourage to support and share of the dream in a school team. Jeffrey Donovan does a magnificent performance as girls' basketball coach. In the scene of the pre-final girls basketball champion dinner table, the players gave their coach a special gift and presented him what they believed in him - that gave me some tears.

• Walter M

  
  In "Believe in Me," it is 1964 and Clay Driscoll(Jeffrey Donovan) and his wife Jean(Samantha Mathis) are moving to Middleton in western Oklahoma where he has been hired for his first head coaching job for the local high school basketball team. He is angry when he finds out… More
  In "Believe in Me," it is 1964 and Clay Driscoll(Jeffrey Donovan) and his wife Jean(Samantha Mathis) are moving to Middleton in western Oklahoma where he has been hired for his first head coaching job for the local high school basketball team. He is angry when he finds out that it is the girls' basketball team, not the boys'. He calms down somewhat when he reads the fine print on the contract and finds gender is not specified. At the first practice, most of the girls quit, leaving the team shorthanded and they get off to an awful start. The team improves somewhat over the rest of the season, but they still only end up with six wins. That does not do anything for Clay's job prospects as the best he can do is an assistant job in another city with a shot at the head coaching job in a few years' time. Inspired by a true story, "Believe in Me" is an entertaining and sweet, not saccharine, movie that does admittedly overstep on a couple of occasions. And the ending of the climactic game is highly unlikely to say the least, but weirder things have happened, right? However, the movie is smart enough to bring up the occasional bit of strategy. Not only does the movie capture a time and place very well, it also subtly displays the first signs of the egalitarian nature of the 60's. All of the girls are given a chance to play based on ability, not status, and Clay is a part of the community, not above it. But this is only the beginning and change like the improved play of the team does not happen overnight. For example, 1964 may be the start of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, but it will not be until 1972 that Title IX is passed by Congress.

• Mark A

  
  This was a real feel-good movie about a girl's high school basketball team in rural Oklahoma back in the sixties, long before Title IX levelled the playing field for women athletes. It is based on the true story of a legendary HS girls basketball coach who got his start in Sayre,… More
  This was a real feel-good movie about a girl's high school basketball team in rural Oklahoma back in the sixties, long before Title IX levelled the playing field for women athletes. It is based on the true story of a legendary HS girls basketball coach who got his start in Sayre, OK. My wife's grandparents moved back east from Sayre during the Dust Bowl, and as a long time women's basketball fan, this viewer felt a special connection to the story. The actors were competent. The girls made one feel like they really did know how to play the game. Jeffrey Donovan played the coach with real passion. Bruce Dern was appropriately Machievellian in his attempt to humiliate and get rid of this coach who wouldn't be satisfied with the leftovers from the boy's program in terms of practice times and equipment. Ultimately, it is a story about heart and determination winning out over adversity and prejudice. Bravo! Brava! Cute idea using the original coach in a cameo, and for giving Diana Taurasi a bit part as well.

• Lea L

  
  sweet movie..