More than a lighter, distaff version of HOOP DREAMS, Ward Serrill's documentary about a never-say-die girls' high-school basketball team has been seven years in the making. Serrill spent those years following the fluctuating fortunes of Roosevelt High's Rough Riders under the tutelage of remarkably dedicated coach Bill Resler. When University of Washington tax professor Resler, a dead-ringer for Burl Ives, heard that Seattle's Roosevelt High was looking for a new head coach for its girls' basketball team, he jumped at the chance. Like many women's high-school sports teams, the Rough Riders had been virtually ignored in favor of their male counterparts. But Resler saw...
Released:
2006
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
98 mins