The shadow of HOOP DREAMS (1994) hangs heavily over Jonathan Hock and Alastair Christopher's documentary about one crucial year in the life of inner-city high-school basketball point guard Sebastian Telfair, a personable and talented teenager from the Surfside Gardens Projects in Coney Island who hopes his athletic gifts will lift his family out of poverty. The film started life as a short commissioned by HBO but grew into a feature as buzz about Telfair — the cousin of troubled hoop star Stephon Marbury and the brother of Jamel Thomas, a promising college player who was snubbed at the NBA draft lottery and was "exiled" to a Greek team — mounted to a fever ...
Released:
2005
Rated:
NR
Length:
103 mins