The Anderson Monarchs is about an all-girls soccer team competing, living, and thriving in an at-risk urban neighborhood in Philadelphia. Nominated in 2008 by Sports Illustrated as "Sports Team" of the year, they were also hailed as "the future of American Soccer" in the London newspaper, The Guardian. The documentary follows two girls, Jlon, age 11, and Kahlaa, age 10, through their formative years from 2009 to 2011. As the girls grow as soccer players, they learn more about their own abilities. Bodies and minds become healthier, aspirations grow, and new dreams are formed. Barriers start to fall by the side as they become confident in school. Marian Anderson, when asked about the time when she was denied the right to sing in Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., replied, "I had no bitterness and I have no bitterness now, because we look for bigger things, and if you're all right on the inside...
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The Anderson Monarchs was released in 2013 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 2 reviews, giving The Anderson Monarchs (2013) an average rating of 45%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 60%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 50%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with The Anderson Monarchs than critics were.
With a score of 45%, The Anderson Monarchs is below the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2013, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 2013 with similar scores include films like The Green Inferno, The Big Wedding and The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia.
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