Antwone Fisher is an autobiographical drama written by the real-life Antwone Fisher, a temperamental young man with a violent history who is serving in the U.S. Navy. He is forced to see a psychiatrist after getting into a fight with a fellow sailor. During the course of treatment a painful past is revealed and a new hope begins.
The movie is a drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a poet and professor at Wiley College Texas, who forms a team of strong-minded, intelligent young students, and they become the first black debate team to challenge Harvard’s prestigious debate champions.
1st Sgt. Charles Monroe King, before he is killed in action in Baghdad, authors a journal for his son intended to tell him how to live a decent life despite growing up without a father.