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Hoop Dreams
Directed by
Steve James
PG-13
1994
2h 54m
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8.3
98%
92%
7.6
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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) / Director / Writer / Producer / Editor
Dick Vitale
Self
Bobby Knight
Self
Spike Lee
Self
Isiah Thomas
Self
Frederick Marx
Writer / Producer / Editor
Neil Laird
Associate Producer
Peter Gilbert
Producer / Director Of Photography
Catherine Allan
Executive Producer
Fenell Doremus
Assistant Editor
William Haugse
Editor
Ben Sidran
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Hoop Dreams Ratings & Reviews
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.
The Ringer
Adam Nayman
At once a rigorous exploration of the sports-educational industrial complex and an intimate piece of portraiture...
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.
Film Comment Magazine
Robert Horton
Utterly, heartbreakingly lucid.
POV Magazine
Jason Gorber
Hoop Dreams was declared a masterpiece early on, and decades later its prestige hasn't diminished one bit.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Steve James's remarkable example of cinma vrit tells the problematic journey of high school basketball stars William Gates and Arthur Agee, two African-American teenagers growing up in Chicago ghettos.
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.
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.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
An extraordinarily affecting documentary.
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
The most powerful movie about sports ever made.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Along the way it becomes a revealing and heartbreaking story about life in America.
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.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A documentary that breathes new life into the subject by showing the everyday reality of that dream.
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