Actor-turned-director George Clooney has a new film in theaters this week called The Boys in the Boat. This adaptation of Daniel James Brown’s non-fiction novel of the same name tells the true story of the University of Washington rowing team that represented the U.S. at the 1936 Olympic Games. Joel Edgerton stars as the coach of the team, Al Ulbrickson, while Callum Turner portrays Joe Rantz, a student who joined the team to escape from the poverty of the Great Depression before he found himself chasing an improbable dream of Olympic glory. That premise may sound familiar because there’s no...