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Heaven Is A Playground

1992, Movie, R, 111 mins

Heaven Is A Playground: Review

In 1974 Sports Illustrated writer Rick Telander spent a season observing life on New York City's public basketball courts. The resulting memoir, Heaven Is a Playground, is a fascinating document that weaves sports into sociology with its depiction of disenfranchized young Blacks for whom the game of basketball is no mere diversion but a self-defining discipline, an extended family, and--if they're good enough--a ticket out of the ghetto via college athletic scholarships. It'... read more leave a comment