watch the new official Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qgfkHvjqqU
official site: http://www.fromtherough.com/ facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FromTheRough
FROM THE ROUGH is based on the true story of Catana Starks, a former swim coach at Tennessee State University who became the first woman ever to coach a college men's golf team. With drive, passion, and guts, she took an unruly group of mismatched kids from around the world and guided them to an all-time record at the PGA National Collegiate Minority Championship.
Tasked with building Tennessee State's first golf team and finding only one available African American golfer -- Craig, a former caddy with plenty of talent but no confidence -- Catana Starks pushes outside TSU's Historically Black context, and, against huge resistance, opens up the roster to underprivileged kids from around the world: Edward, a lower class British youth with a rakish charm and a contempt for authority; Bassam, a French-Algerian from Paris, angry about the discrimination of his people, soft-spoken but likely to explode; Cameron, an Australian from a single-parent household with a childhood spent working, using golf as means to escape; and Ji-Kyung, a disaffected South Korean from Orange County with a love of hip hop.
Finding each of these wildly different players in places around the world is tough. Getting them to come together as a team is tougher. But Catana Starks relishes the challenge. At the end of the day, a person's character is determined by the adversity she faces. Against all odds, Catana Starks takes her underdogs From the Rough and turns them into winners.
song in the trailer: "Reckoner" by Radiohead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uofQD-N6UI
Starring: Tom Felton, Taraji P. Henson, Michael Clarke Duncan, LeToya Luckett, Henry Simmons, Justin Chon, Robert Bailey Jr., Ben Youcef, Paul Hodge
In a career that’s already netted her an Oscar nomination, Taraji P. Henson has appeared in films about men who age backwards, a pimp who becomes a rap impresario, and a competition among assassins. Not long ago, though, a movie project caught her attention because the plot sounded so unusual — an African-American woman becoming coach of a men’s golf team. And it came from real life. "That was the first thing that attracted me to this project," Henson said Monday night by phone from New York City. The resulting film, From the Rough, will be shown 7:30 p.m. Wednesday night at TPAC's Polk Theater as the opening attraction in the sixth annual International Black Film Festival of Nashville, which continues throughout the weekend with premieres, panels and parties at venues across the city.See the full interview here.In director Pierre Bagley’s film, Henson portrays longtime Tennessee State University golf coach Catana Starks. Originally a swim coach, Starks was asked to take over the TSU men's golf team in 1986. Finding only one black golfer on a squad without much promise, Starks traveled the world finding talent while building a highly competitive team over two decades. Some of her star players came from Australia, Hong Kong, France and the United Kingdom.
"The thing about her that's so amazing, and what I wanted to portray, was her determination to succeed," Henson says. "She attracted golfers who weren't black, but came from impoverished backgrounds and were able to excel. It is an amazing story."
