Invictus (2009)

 

Release Date: December 11, 2009

Director: Clint Eastwood

Writer(s): Anthony Peckham (screenplay), John Carlin (book)

Starring: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon

Estimated budget: $60 million

U.S. Box Office: $37,491,364

Foreign: $84,742,607

Worldwide: $122,233,971

 

Following the fall of apartheid, newly elected President Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) faces a South Africa that is racially and economically divided. Believing he can unite his countrymen through the universal language of sport, Mandela joins forces with Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon), captain of the rugby team, to rally South Africans behind a bid for the 1995 World Cup Championship.