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Tiger Woods, histoire d'une légende

Original title: The Tiger Woods Story
  • TV Movie
  • 1998
  • PG-13
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
4.1/10
307
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Tiger Woods, histoire d'une légende (1998)
BiographyDramaSport

Biography of Tiger Woods from his birth to him winning his first golf major at the Augusta Masters in 1997.Biography of Tiger Woods from his birth to him winning his first golf major at the Augusta Masters in 1997.Biography of Tiger Woods from his birth to him winning his first golf major at the Augusta Masters in 1997.

  • Director
    • LeVar Burton
  • Writers
    • John Strege
    • Takashi Bufford
  • Stars
    • Keith David
    • Khalil Kain
    • Freda Foh Shen
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    4.1/10
    307
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • LeVar Burton
    • Writers
      • John Strege
      • Takashi Bufford
    • Stars
      • Keith David
      • Khalil Kain
      • Freda Foh Shen
    • 13User reviews
    • 9Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 nominations total

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    Keith David
    Keith David
    • Earl Woods
    Khalil Kain
    Khalil Kain
    • Tiger Woods (age 21)
    Freda Foh Shen
    Freda Foh Shen
    • Tida Woods
    Roger Twibell
    • Announcer #1
    John H. Schroeder
    • Announcer #2
    Drancy Jackson
    • Jason
    Ron Johnson
    • Gus
    Spencer Garrett
    Spencer Garrett
    • Hughes Norton
    Jocko Marcellino
    • Fluff
    Jerry Giles
    Jerry Giles
    • Butch Harmon
    Gerard Sanders
    Gerard Sanders
    • Nick Faldo
    Radmar Agana Jao
    Radmar Agana Jao
    • Tiger Phong
    Michael Potter
    Michael Potter
    • General Copeland
    Eric Ayaso
    • Earl's Attendant
    Richard Keats
    Richard Keats
    • Realtor
    Ski Pierce
    • Newborn Tiger #1
    Skyler Pierce
    Skyler Pierce
    • Newborn Tiger #2
    Austin Allen
    • Toddler Tiger
    • Director
      • LeVar Burton
    • Writers
      • John Strege
      • Takashi Bufford
    • All cast & crew
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    User reviews13

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    5Loquacious_to_a_fault

    Good Lifetime-type movie

    I don't know what other reviewers are talking about? This movie is good. It's on the level of a Lifetime-type movie of its day in time. Are people comparing this to a blockbuster type movie?... because it was not that bad.

    At any rate, the acting was good and moved along pretty quickly. Everyone held their own, from the kid who played Tiger to him as a 21 year old.

    Now, if Nextflix, Hulu, HBOMax or AppleTv (or something like that) made this movie, in this current and age-I'm sure it would be better and probably done in an episodic format up to current day Tiger.

    Obviously, watch it yourself and judge for yourself. Definitely good watch for a lazy Sunday afternoon.
    1JEC64

    How Does My Dictate?

    Wow!!!! this was the all time lowest film every made. A must see for those who are absolutely shocked with terrible cinema. My friend and I watched this one in amazement wondering where it came from. There was a funny line though........."How does my dictate" Tiger.......How did you let this get made?
    1grizzlycb

    Utterly awful

    I thought this film was worse than Plan 9 from Outer Space. Similarly to Edward Wood, the director will be very famous in the future, I am very confident of that.

    I could learn to love this film if I thought it were a parody - but it isn't. Tragically.

    Sets are woefully inadequate, acting with more wood than Tiger himself, comic bit-parts, abysmal script.... there is nothing redeeming except the undoubtedly gripping story, and the good resemblance of Tiger's screen mother to his real mum. Colin Montgomerie on the other hand...

    Ooh, but the score covering the closing credits is highly entertaining!
    leew-5

    Casting fiasco

    As a Tiger Woods fan (with a morbid fondness for campy made-for-TV biopics) I made it a point to catch this one on Fox Family channel. While watching (during the many boring, repetitious or mawkish bits) I was reading a profile of the real Tiger in the current New Yorker magazine. But that only accentuated the film's faults. The first half or more was actually not as bad as it could have been. The acting, particularly by Keith David and Freda Foh Shen as Earl and Tida, was quite competent, and care seemed to have been taken to portray accurately the discovery and development of the child Tiger's remarkable talents. The boy playing Tiger up to age 13, Gary Le Roi Gray, bore a remarkable resemblance to Tiger and got all the moves right.

    The film fell apart, however, as soon as Khalil Kain came on the scene as the older Tiger, starting with his time at Stanford. The actor now bore absolutely no resemblance to Tiger Woods as we know him: his looks, his build, his demeanor, his attitude, his speech -- all were totally lacking in even the remotest resemblance to one of the best known people in America today. What could the casting people have been thinking? You could stand on a street corner in any American city and within a few minutes find someone who looks and acts more like Tiger Woods than this guy. (The scenes at Stanford were also almost unwatchable, looking like outtakes from the tackiest TV high school drama.) This lack of verisimilitude was all the more jarring given what had gone on in the dutiful and well-intentioned first half of the film. Quite frankly, at this point, I switched off. I wasn't up for the doubtless sappy, soppy ending anyway, and I really could not bear to look at the impostor playing Tiger -- a callow, wimpy, whiny, pale unsmiling youth, posing as a tall, handsome, strongly built and profoundly athletic man with a world-famous toothy smile (and, yeah, okay, a bit of a puffed-up personality) whom everyone in the world recognizes. In the end (or at least at the point where I bailed out) this film was an embarrassment.
    mcfly-31

    worst actor in history discovered

    I usually don't review tv movies because they usually aren't worthwhile. This film is no exception, but I had to throw in my two cents because of maybe the worst actor I've ever seen. Unfortunately, for Showtime (the makers of the film), it wasn't a supporting actor, but their lead. Khalil Kain, the guy who plays Tiger, is abysmal. Stiff line readings, emotionless, totally unlikable. Hardly bore resemblance as well. These aspects just cause the viewer to be distracted by making comments to others in the room (or to themselves) about how lousy the casting director is. As far as the film, it's by the numbers familiararity, and ends just when Woods was getting rolling in life! One of those flicks you recommend to people because it's so entertaining on a bad level.

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    • Trivia
      In 2000, Viacom, owners of the film's producers Paramount and broadcaster Showtime, bought CBS, which has televised The Masters since 1956.
    • Connections
      Referenced in La Bande à Picsou: The Missing Links of Moorshire! (2018)
    • Soundtracks
      Who's The Man
      Written by Winston Mcfarlane and Tommy Speed

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    • Release date
      • April 12, 1998 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Tiger Woods Story
    • Filming locations
      • Balboa Park - 1549 El Prado, San Diego, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • MTV Productions
      • Paramount Network Television Productions
      • Showtime Networks
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 30m(90 min)
    • Color
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