IMDb plot summary: Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge, and Patrick Mofokeng.
This is an interesting genre hybrid we don't see too often: a political/sports movie. It was also kind of fascinating to watch 10 years after it came out when it feels like my country is also spectacularly fractured (though obviously not to the extent or for the reasons that we see here) -- seeing anything uniting a fractured country through compassion and forgiveness gives me hope. And tying that into people's love for sport almost made me care about the outcome of the Big Sports Game! Almost. It didn't come together quite as much as I wanted it to in the end, but the lead-up to it was more interesting than I anticipated.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Invictus > Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Invictus < Rock of Ages
Invictus < Death to Smoochy
Invictus > No eres tu, soy yo
Invictus < The Prestige
Invictus > Pitch Perfect 2
Invictus < Lucky Number Slevin
Invictus < To Be or Not to Be
Invictus < Moonwalker
Invictus > The Chalk Garden
Invictus > Spider-Man: Homecoming
Invictus > Meet John Doe
Final spot: #1232 out of 2934.
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