'The Boys in the Boat' gives the Hollywood treatment to rowing during an Olympic year
The journey from nowhere to an Olympic gold medal is a tale as old as time.
Just as well-worn, but far less explored, are the stories about great athletes who realize they can't make it anywhere unless they have a way to bankroll the trip.
“The Boys in the Boat” is and director 's way of stringing those plot lines together. That it opens Christmas Day, a mere seven months before the start of the Paris Olympics, is good fortune for the people who oversee rowing in the U.S. and know the general public mostly either a) doesn't think about that sport
