Director: Steve James
Country of origin: USA
Year of release: 1994
Running time: 170'
Considered by many to be the greatest documentary film ever made (and arguably the greatest sports film ever), Hoop Dreams is the remarkable true story of two young African American men from the inner city determined to turn their love of basketball into personal success.
Plucked from the streets and given the opportunity to attend a suburban private school and play for a legendary high school coach, William Gates and Arthur Agee soon discover that their dreams of glory become obscured amid the intense pressures of academics, family life, economic circumstances and athletic competitiveness.
Yet both boys remain focused on their dream, no matter how hard tragedy strikes or how desperate their situation becomes. Their faith in the game they love continually gives them hope, a hope that ultimately allows them to build upon their failures as well as their triumphs and make for themselves a potentially better life.
Far more than a sympathetic portrait of two teenagers reaching for the
stars, Hoop Dreams, while remaining epic in scope, manages to be intimate in detail, chronicling the universal process of growing up and coming of age. It is about success and failure not just on the basketball court, but also in school, at home, in society, and ultimately, in life.
(Some info taken from kartemquin.com)
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