2009 Riverside Saginaw Film Festival

Feature Presentations - Documentaries

 

Harvard Beats Yale, 29-29

 
USA, 2009
105 minutes

Showings: TBA

Showings: TBA

Synopsis: Players on both sides of the 1968 Ivy League football match recall not only the game but also the era of Vietnam War protests, student uprisings and the birth control pill. On the Harvard team was actor Tommy Lee Jones, who was Al Gore's roommate; on the Yale team was George W. Bush’s roommate and a player who was dating actress Meryl Streep.

“This is a documentary that knows it's got the goods, and does it ever.”

–Kenneth Turan, The Los Angeles Timese

 

 

 

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