A Christmas Day release, the Clooney-directed film tells the tale of the 1936 University of Washington rowing team, which competed at the Summer Olympics in Berlin.
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You can’t deny the simple charm of “The Boys in the Boat,” which transports us back to a hard-to-imagine time when people crowded around radios to hear the play-by-play, er, row-by-row call of a big match.