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Hoop Dreams (1994)
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This completely absorbing three-hour documentary follows the lives of two inner-city African American teenage basketball prodigies as they move through high school with long-shot dreams of the NBA, superstardom, and an escape from the ghetto. Taking cues from such works as Michael Apted's 35 Up, director Steve James and associates shot more than 250 hours of footage, spanning more than six years, and their completed work actually moves like an edge-of-the-seat drama, so brimming with tension, plot twists, successes, and tragedies that its length--170 minutes--is never an issue. Yet, what makes the film more impressive is how James...
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| Starring: |  | Arthur Agee | | William Gates |
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Hoop Dreams Movie Review by AJ  (4/19/2006) |
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An excellent documentary about two inner city kids, Arthur Agee and William Gates, and their aspirations of reaching the NBA...and of how their dreams are broken, their lives fall apart, and how disillusionment eventually sets in. Hoop Dreams is heartbreaking and stirring, a completely human and tangible story dotted with...
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