George Clooney follows up The Tender Bar (2021) with another unabashed heartwarmer, a solid but fairly predictable old-school sports biopic celebrating the scrappy University of Washington men’s rowing eight, which powered to the 1936 Olympics against all the odds.
Adapted from Daniel James Brown’s bestseller, The Boys in the Boat is a real-life underdog story, one that zeroes in on Callum Turner’s proud but penniless Depression-era student Joe Ranz, who desperately battles for a crew place just for the free board and lodging.
