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Hoop Dreams
Directed by
Steve James
PG-13
1994
2h 54m
Documentary
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8.3
98%
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A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.
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Cast of Hoop Dreams
William Gates
Self
Arthur Agee
Self
Gene Pingatore
Self
Steve James
Narrator (voice)
Dick Vitale
Self
Bobby Knight
Self
Spike Lee
Self
Isiah Thomas
Self
Hoop Dreams Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Along the way it becomes a revealing and heartbreaking story about life in America.
New York Times
Caryn James
The film's great achievement is to reveal the relentless way in which coaches and recruiters refuse to see Arthur and William as anything other than social cliches.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A documentary that breathes new life into the subject by showing the everyday reality of that dream.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
More of an extended, rousing sociology lesson than anything else, it's also the single most remarkable documentary to come down the pike in a long while. And I'm not even a basektball fan.
The Ringer
Adam Nayman
At once a rigorous exploration of the sports-educational industrial complex and an intimate piece of portraiture...
Film Comment Magazine
Robert Horton
Utterly, heartbreakingly lucid.
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
It's about three hours long. But it moves like Isiah, fast and smooth, and it's over in a heartbreak.
Newsweek
David Ansen
Hoop Dreams has shown us that the rules of the game are stacked against kids like Gates and Agee. Even better, it shows us how they fight back, with the inside moves of hope.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
A heady dose of the American dream and the American nightmare combined -- a numbing investigation of how one point on an exam or one basket or turnover in a game can make all the difference in a family's fortunes.
Variety
Todd McCarthy
A prodigious achievement that conveys the fabric of modern American life, aspirations and incidentally, sports, in close-up and at length, Hoop Dreams is a documentary slam dunk.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
An extraordinarily affecting documentary.
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
The most powerful movie about sports ever made.
Chicago Reader
Bill Stamets
Recruiters, coaches, teachers-even the boys' fathers-could be easy targets, but the filmmakers forgo cheap shots.
Women in the Life
Sheila Reid
It's a compelling story that gives you an in depth look at their world.
IONCINEMA.com
Jordan M. Smith
It's still a miraculous achievement that has rarely been emulated.
POV Magazine
Jason Gorber
Hoop Dreams was declared a masterpiece early on, and decades later its prestige hasn't diminished one bit.
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Charles Mudede
It is impossible to watch this story of kids who have dreams of becoming rich and famous by way of professional basketball without a sense of nostalgia and even sadness.
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Sarah Boslaugh
... well worth your time for the up close and personal view it provides of how issues of race and class play out in the lives of these talented young men and their families.
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