enough to make you hope that one of these days Washington will forgo such conventional genre trappings and unleash his own Do the Right Thing. Nate Parker may end up the next Denzel Washington. He has the charm and emotional punch. Put him in more things. Great Debaters dvd A movie about ideas thats a bit too timid to actually be about them. Working hard on both sides of the camera, Washington has grafted his intensity onto this production, giving it a kind of backbone it would not otherwise have. Its terrifically acted, pretty much a given with this cast. This fact-based drama is well-intentioned but gets a little bogged down in the details.