"Remember the Titans"

( Handout photo / February 21, 2013 )

I can't help but watch this every time it shows up on cable, which is, oh, once a week or so. You know there's no suspense in the ending, but it manages to uplift you anyway. No one could have played Coach Boone better than Denzel Washington. And though the film makes overcoming racism look as easy as sacking Jay Cutler, it still gives me hope that the real world can solve its problems so expeditiously.

-- Chris Sosa, RedEye sports editor