Shot over five years and compiled from 250 hours of footage, this Sundance-winning documentary follows two high-school students from Chicago...
Shot over five years and compiled from 250 hours of footage, this Sundance-winning documentary follows two high-school students from Chicago and their dream to become professional basketball players.
William Gates and Arthur Agee are two African-American teenagers recruited by a scout from St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois, a predominantly white high school and whose alumni include NBA great Isiah Thomas. Agee and Gates are both from poor neighbourhoods. Taking 90-minute commutes to school, enduring long and difficult workouts and practices, and having to acclimatise to a foreign social environment, Gates and Agee struggle to improve their athletic skills in a hugely competitive job market.
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98 %63 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
92 %12,664 reviewsAudience score rating
"A prodigious achievement that conveys the fabric of modern American life, aspirations and incidentally, sports, in close-up and at length."
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Variety
Variety"Unforgettable."
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Time Out
Time Out"Brilliantly revealing."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"Along the way it becomes a revealing and heartbreaking story about life in America."
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert"An ironic drama so beautifully sculpted it could be transposed without alteration into a fictional film."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"This is the best type of documentary, giving an intensely personal story you can't help but become involved in, and also raises fundamental issues about America in the 90s."
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Empire Magazine
Empire MagazineHoop Dreams | Details
Award winner- Audience Award winner (Documentary), Sundance Film Festival 1994
- Runtime
- 170
- Genre
- Documentary, Sport
- Country of origin
- USA
