Who is the 2013 movie "42" about?

The 2013 movie “42” is about Jackie Robinson, the baseball player who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier.

Starring Chadwick Boseman as Robinson and Harrison Ford as Brooklyn Dodgers executive Branch Rickey, the film follows Robinson’s difficult 1946 season with the Dodgers’ minor-league team and his historic 1947 MLB debut. Robinson faced racist abuse from spectators, opposing players, and even some teammates, while Rickey insisted that he be judged by his performance rather than his race.

The title refers to Robinson’s uniform number, 42. In 1997, Major League Baseball retired the number across all teams, an unprecedented honor. Since 2004, April 15 has been Jackie Robinson Day, when every player and uniformed personnel member wears number 42.

“42” is a dramatized biographical film, so some conversations and events are compressed or presented for dramatic effect. Its central subject, however, is unmistakably Robinson’s integration of modern MLB and his impact on American sports and civil rights.