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Mood:
- CaptivatingContemplativeSincereThought Provoking
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Plot:
- Athlete's LifeUnderdogComing of AgeFollow Your DreamAmbitionHopesLife is a BitchMind and Soul more...
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Genres:
- DramaSportIndependentDocumentary
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century90s
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Place:
- ChicagoUSACollegeHigh SchoolUrbanUrban GhettoCampus
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- Critically AcclaimedSundance Festival Winner
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- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Hoop Dreams, 1994
English
USA
Profile of Hoop Dreams
The mood of Hoop Dreams is captivating, thought provoking, and contemplative. The plot centers around the life of an athlete, underdogs, and following your dreams. It is a drama, independent, and documentary movie. In approach, Hoop Dreams is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. It takes place, at least partly, in an urban ghetto and at a high school. Hoop Dreams is set in Chicago. It happens in the 1990s. The movie is known for being a Sundance Festival winner and critically acclaimed.
Summary of Hoop Dreams
One of the most critically acclaimed documentaries of all-time, Hoop Dreams has become a model for how to construct a fact-based film, creating intimate and emotionally resonant portraits of its subjects while exploring the larger social issues that those subjects are negotiating with. The film focuses on William Gates and Arthur Agee, two teenagers from inner-city Chicago, and follows them for almost five years, the period where both enter and complete their high school careers. Both young men are talented basketball players, and as the title suggests, have their eyes on the college game and eventually the NBA as their best shot at escaping the poverty they grew up in. But as William and Arthur reach for their goal, they must contend with the pressing issues and difficulties of social class and racism, as well as the predatory practices of the basketball recruiters who entice the pair to attend their schools. In this way, Hoop Dreams chronicles much more than just the individual experiences of two young men. It examines the larger problems that beset inner-city African-American families and how they cope with those difficulties through family support and friendship, as well as presenting a picture of the increasingly ruthless, big-business tactics of college and even high school sports. It remains a seminal documentary film, both affecting and thought provoking in its story of lives and dreams entangled by forces beyond their control.
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| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | January 1994 |
| Runtime: | 170 min |
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