This documentary follows two inner-city Chicago residents, Arthur Agee and William Gates, as they follow their dreams of becoming basketball superstars. Beginning at the start of their high school years, and ending almost 5 years later, as they start college, we watch the boys mature into men, still retaining their "Hoop Dreams". Both are recruited into the same elite high school as their idol, former Detroit Piston superstar Isaiah Thomas. Only one survives the first year; the other must return to a high school closer to his home. Along the way, there is much tragedy, some joy, a great wealt... h of information about inner city life, and the suspense of not knowing what will occur next. This is not a "by-the-numbers" film.
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Hoop Dreams
A documentary that makes redundant all the recent fictional accounts of basketball heroics; here is the real thing, a brilliant documentary of the conjunction and conflict of the American Dream and the realities of life, following its two protagonists and
Even if you have no interest whatsoever in the sport of basketball, don't let that put you off seeing this remarkable documentary from filmmakers Steve James and Peter Gilbert.
Hoop Dreams was originally intended as a short feature about two Chicago teenagers, William Gates and Arthur Agee, who had aspirations to become professional basketball players, but director James left the cameras running and revisited his two protagonists over a five-year period.
The result not only follows the lives of the boys as they mature into men, suffering success and disaster along the way, but also provides a picture of tough inner-city life shorn of glamour...
Hoop Dreams
"...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..."
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The story of two teenage young men growing up in poor neighborhoods with the dream of making it to the NBA. In this documentary they are followed through there lives from there highschool years to there 1st year of college. No matter what life throws at these young men they never lose focus on there dream of the NBA! It also follows the struggle of daily life living in poor neighborhoods and the projects. You will find this documentary very inspirational.
