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Hoop Dreams (Blu-ray, 2020)

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Shot over five years, this Oscar-winning documentary follows the passage of two young men with dreams of making it big in the world of basketball. Arthur and William are two black teenagers from Chicago, who both hope to earn themselves a place in the NBA. Sports scholarships ensure that they attend prestigious colleges after leaving high school, but this step up the ladder brings them to a new level of training, with a demanding coach who drives them to the very limits of their abilities.

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A highly acclaimed, Oscar-overlooked documentary about the hopes and dreams of two inner city youths who see basketball, and especially acceptance to a school known for its outstanding basketball program, as their ticket out of poverty. Appearances by Isiah Thomas, Dick Vitale, Spike Lee and Bobby Knight. Academy Award Nominations: Best Film Editing. Winner of the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

Product Identifiers

EAN5050968003419

eBay Product ID (ePID)2319603245

Product Key Features

ActorArthur Agee, Peter Gilbert, William Gates, Frederick Marx

Film/TV TitleHoop Dreams

DirectorSteve James

Release Year2020

FormatBlu-ray

LanguageEnglish

Features20th Anniversary Restoration

GenreDrama

Additional Product Features

Certificate12A/12

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

Number of Discs1

ReviewsRolling Stone - ...This unflinching masterwork is a heartfelt vision of sports and family values that will leave you cheering..., Robert Ebert - It is poetry and prose, muckraking and expose, journalism and polemic. It is one of the great movie going experiences of my lifetime., Film Comment - ...Utterly, heartbreakingly lucid....Inspiring..., New York Times - ...[This] fascinating, suspenseful film turns the endless revision of the American dream into high drama....[A] profound social tale..., Entertainment Weekly - "...Brutally poignant..." -- Rating: A, Variety - ...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..., Sight and Sound - ...There is something about the film's upfront rawness that pitches it engagingly somewhere between home movie and drama..., Premiere - "...A powerful and moving real-life story..." - Recommended

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitleHoop Dreams