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Basketball Movies

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  1. daeyeth

    daeyeth Member

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    What the best basketball movies you guys have seen and can recommend to me? I haven't seen any. Documentary or narrative, though I would prefer documentary. Not particularly interested in seeing the standard story arc of the sports movie.
     
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    Flight of Calvin Waters. Based on a true story about a football player, but adapted for basketball. Can't see it yet, a friend of mine made it and he's making the rounds at film festivals. Go to a Redbox and await its release with great anticipation.
     
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  3. wallyj12

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    Worst Basketball Movie: Semi-Pro

    Good Documentary Ones: Those "Championship Videos" from each year the Rockets won where they recapped the season/playoffs. They are very well done and still give me chills
     
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  4. across110thstreet

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    "Hoop Dreams" obviously.

    or "Gunnin or That #1 Spot" for a more recent look.
     
    #4 across110thstreet, Mar 28, 2010
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    Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

    pretty good movie...that is based on a true story (don't know how much of it is stretched though)
     
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    The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh...


    This is by far the greatest hoops movie ever made, by far.
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    I liked "Blue Chips".

    and years ago i watched "the Hank gathers story" and i loved it.
     
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    hooked: the legend of demetrius "hook" mitchell.
     
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    White Men Cant Jump isnt only a great basketball movie. It is one of the best movies ever made.
     
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  10. red

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    Hoosiers
    White men can't jump
    Above the rim
     
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  11. Malcolm

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    I remember that movie it was pretty sad. Good movie but sad story.
     
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    Coach Carter
     
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    Hoop Dreams

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    Siskel & Ebert review from 1994 (Two Thumbs Up)

    http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/atm/reviews.html?sec=6&subsec=hoop+dreams
     
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    Pistol: the birth of a legend
     
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    That was a good documentary.....
    What could have been.....had the drugs not come to him
     
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    Glory Road? That was a good movie
     
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    Teen wolf was a coming of age story, the struggle of man vs self and beast vs. self. Two claws up for Teen wolf.
    Go beavers!
     
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