Jackie Robinson Has Finally Made The Big Screen

Throughout history, we have learned about the 1st African American baseball player to break the racial barrier in the Major Leagues via . It's finally arrived, the official movie based on #42's career highlights. The powerful story of Jackie Robinson, the legendary baseball player who broke Major League Baseball's color barrier when he joined the roster of the Brooklyn Dodgers. "42" will star Academy Award(R) nominee Harrison Ford ("Witness") as the innovative Dodger's general manager Branch Rickey, the MLB executive who first signed Robinson to the minors and then helped to bring him up to the show, and Chadwick Boseman ("The Express") as Robinson. Also starring Christopher Meloni, Ryan Merriman, Brad Beyer, Judy Tylor, Jon Bernthal, Nicole Beharie & T.R. Knight.

In Theaters April 12, 2013