The Anderson Monarchs

2013
4.2| 1h16m| en
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The Anderson Monarchs is about an all-girls soccer team competing, living, and thriving in an at-risk urban neighborhood in Philadelphia. Nominated in 2008 by Sports Illustrated as "Sports Team" of the year, they were also hailed as "the future of American Soccer" in the London newspaper, The Guardian. The documentary follows two girls, Jlon, age 11, and Kahlaa, age 10, through their formative years from 2009 to 2011. As the girls grow as soccer players, they learn more about their own abilities. Bodies and minds become healthier, aspirations grow, and new dreams are formed. Barriers start to fall by the side as they become confident in school. Marian Anderson, when asked about the time when she was denied the right to sing in Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., replied, "I had no bitterness and I have no bitterness now, because we look for bigger things, and if you're all right on the inside...

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Develiker terrible... so disappointed.
Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
Candida It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

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