Film

Hoop Dreams

Name: Hoop Dreams
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1994
Cast: William Gates, Arthur Agee, Gene Pingatore, Steve James, Dick Vitale

A five-year chronicle of two Chicago teenagers, William Gates and Arthur Agee, chasing basketball scholarships out of poverty. It's patient, almost novelistic in its accumulation of small humiliations and victories, and it never rushes toward a tidy ending because life doesn't. For anyone who thinks documentaries can't have narrative tension, this is the corrective.

TMDb rating

7.6

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