Blog: The Sly Oyster

If you're going to make a movie about Nelson Mendela, it's pretty much a given that Morgan Freeman would play the South Africa president. So it's no surprise, then, that he shows up here in Clint Eastwood's Oscar-baiting flick about Mendela's early moments as President, in which he attempts to unite a post-apartheid country through the national rugby team. Matt Damon shows up as leading player, Francois Pienaar. Of course, the team captain guides his team to the 1995 World Championship and everything in South Africa has been peaches and cream since then. [...]