|
MOVIE |
SUMMARY |
INFO |
:03 from Gold
 |
HBO documentary on the controversial US-USSR basketball game in the Munich Olympics. (2002) |
Starring: Liev Schreiber as narrator.
Rated NR
Runtime: 59 minutes |
25 Strong
 
|
25 Strong is the documentary of the 25 Year history of the Kevin Bushell Pre Teen Basketball Classic which takes place in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. (2006) |
Interviewed: Stephon Marbury, Jamaal Tinsley, Rafer Alston.
Rated: NR
Runtime: 75 minutes |
30 Days
  |
Two star basketball players, Donnell, a black kid from the inner city high school, and Jason, a white kid from the affluent suburbs, are sentenced to 30 days of labour in each other's communities after a brawl between their two teams. When they return to their home turf, both see their new attitudes put to the test. (2006) |
Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Taye Diggs, Hill Harper, Charlie Neal, Da Brat, Roscoe Orman, Abdul Yoba.
Runtime: 93 minutes |
4 Chosen
 
|
Documentary of four young minority basketball players from New York City are traveling to North Carolina for a college basketball showcase when they are racially profiled by two NJ State Troopers and then shot 13 times. (2008) |
Narrated by: Montel Williams.
Story of: Danny Reyes, Jermaine Grant, Rayshawn Brown, Keshon Moore.
Runtime: 48 minutes |
The 6th Man
  |
Antoine and Kenny Tyler are NCAA college basketball players, and Antoine is the star. Suddenly Antoine dies of heart attack and Kenny has to fill his shoes as leader of team. Some time later, Antoine returns as a ghost and helps Kenny in game and in life, but Kenny changes in the process and doesn't quite like it. (1997) |
Starring: Marlon Wayans, Kadeem Hardison.
Rated PG-13
Runtime: 109 minutes |
Above The Rim
  |
Story of Kyle-Lee Watson, a promising high school basketball star, and his relationships with Birdie, a powerful drug dealer, and Birdie's brother, Thomas 'Shep' Sheppard, himself once a promising high school star at Kyle's school, now employed as a security guard. (1994) |
Starring: Duane Martin, Leon, Tupac Shakur, David Bailey, Tonya Pinkins.
Rated R
Runtime: 97 minutes |
The Absent-Minded Professor
  |
A bumbling professor accidently invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a hard surface. It allows for the invention of shoes that can allow jumps of amazing heights, which helps propel his college's basketball team to victory. (1961) |
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk, Leon Ames.
Rated G
Runtime: 104 minutes |
Air Bud
  |
Buddy, a golden retriever, runs away from his mean owner, befriends a 12-year-old boy and becomes the mascot for the school basketball team. (1997) |
Starring: Michael Jeter, Kevin Zegers, Wendy Makkena, Bill Cobbs, Eric Christmas.
Rated PG
Runtime: 98 minutes |
The Air Up There
  |
Jimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find. He ends up deep in Africa, hoping to recruit Saleh, a huge basketball prodigy Jimmy glimpsed in a home movie. But Saleh is the chief's son and has responsibilities at home, since the tribe's land is threatened by a mining company with its own hotshot basketball team. (1994) |
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Charles Gitonga Maina.
Rated PG
Runtime: 107 minutes |
Amazing Grace and Chuck
  |
Sentimental "wish fulfillment" tale of Little League ace and professional basketball player leading worldwide protest against nuclear arms. Heartstrings-tugger is perfect popcorn muncher for young, socially conscious kids. (1987) |
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Alex English.
Rated PG
Runtime: 115 minutes |
Annie O
 |
Female phenom Annie Rojas tries out for the boy's basketball team. The team captain, the coach and her best friend believe in her - the others don't. (1995) |
Starring: Rob Stewart, Coco Yares, Chad Willett.
Rated PG
Runtime: 93 minutes |
Bad as I Wanna Be: The Dennis Rodman Story
  |
Biography of Chicago Bulls' basketball star Dennis Rodman, who is well known for his off-court and on-court shenanigans takes great effort to paint the calm, decent side of the athlete despite the film title. (1998) |
Starring: Dwayne Adway.
Rated NR
Runtime: 120 minutes |
BASEketball
  |
Story of a baseketball team called the Milwalkie Beers and a wife who wants to take over the team. Plus, Jenny McCarthy and Jasmine Bleeth - Yes! (1998) |
Stars: Trey Parker, Matt Stone
Rated R
Runtime: 103 minutes |
The Basket
  |
Shortly after World War I, a new teacher brings basketball to a picturesque Pacific Northwest community raising its wheat and children in the midst of a nation reeling. (1999) |
Starring: Peter Coyote, Karen Allen.
Rated PG
Runtime: 104 minutes |
Basketball Diaries
  |
Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. (1995) |
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, Marilyn Sokol, James Madio, Patrick McGaw.
Rated R
Runtime: 102 minutes |
The Basketball Fix
  |
A college basketball star collaborrates with organized crime and becomes involved in 'point shaving.' A sportswriter tries to get him back on the right track. (1951) |
Starring: John Ireland, Marshall Thompson.
Rated NR
Runtime: 66 minutes |
The Basketball Killer
 |
Comedy action thriller out of the UK. Maverick police officer, Jack Niro, is called upon to bring the killer to justice after a mysterious murder in the back streets of London. (2000) |
Starring: Peter Dawson,
Michael Wildman, Nicholas Beveney, Gibb Sutherland, Barry Lee-Thomas.
Rated NR
Runtime: 28 minutes |
Believe In Me
 
|
In a conservative small town, a young man's wish to coach high school basketball are tweaked by a school board decision that makes him the new coach of the girls' team. (2006) |
Starring: Jeffrey Donovan, Samantha Mathis, Bruce Dern.
Rated PG
Runtime: 131 minutes |
Big and Hairy
 
|
A boy moves into a new town and has difficulty making friends, so he joins the basketball team. Initially experiencing little success, his popularity increases when he convinces a Sasquatch to join the team. (1998) |
Starring: Robert Burke, Trevor Jones, Greg Thirloway, Richard Thomas.
Rated NR.
Runtime: 94 minutes |
Big Shot - Confessions of a Campus Bookie
  |
A freshman on the campus of Arizona State University, Benny Silman is in charge of accepting all bets for the school's basketball games, under the watchful eye of his mentor, a high-rolling Las Vegas gambler . It isn't long before Benny is operating his own bookie ring, raking in big bucks at every turn. Based on a real-life 1994 scandal involving college basketball point-shaving. (2002) |
Starring: David Krumholtz, Tory Kittles, Jennifer Morrison, Nicholas Turturro, Zachary Levi.
Rated R
Runtime: 83 minutes |
Black Magic
 
|
Dramatic film about the injustice which defined the Civil Rights Movement in America, as told through the lives of basketball players and coaches who attended Historical Black Colleges and Universities. (2008) |
Narrated by: Samuel L. Jackson, Wynton Marsalis, Chris Paul, Julius Erving.
Rated: NR
Runtime: 224 minutes |
Blue Chips
  |
Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team aren't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by other teams. This practise is forbidden in the college game, but Pete is desperate and has pressures from all around. (1994) |
Starring: Nick Nolte, Mary McDonnell, J.T.Walsh, Ed O'Neill, Shaquille O'Neill, Anfernee Hardaway, Matt Nover, Bob Cousy.
Rated PG-13
Runtime: 107 minutes |
Boys Klub
  |
Forced to spend the summer with his aunt in San Francisco, young Mario quickly encounters a group of young boys his own age. Encouraged by a priest to do something worthwhile with their time, the kids start a basketball squad known as the "Boys Klub." After entering their upstart team into a local tournament, will they have what it takes to become champions? (2001) |
Starring: Beau Bridges, Rachel Hunter.
Rated NR
Runtime: 98 minutes |
Campus Confessions
 |
Hollywood college film noted for the appearance of Hank Luisetti, generally credited as the inventor of the one-handed shot in basketball. Luisetti appeared after graduation from Stanford University. He also was voted the second most influential basketball player, behind George Mikan, in the first half of the 20th century. (1938) |
Starring: Betty Grable, Hank Luisetti, Eleanore Whitney.
Rated NR
Runtime: 67 minutes |
Celtic Pride
  |
Two over-loyal Celtic fans kidnap their opponent's star player in order to guarantee their team the championship. (1996) |
Starring: Damon Wayans, Daniel Stern, Dan Aykroyd.
Rated PG-13
Runtime: 90 minutes |
Chiefs
 
|
In this documentary, it's been seven years since the Wyoming Indian High School Chiefs have won a state championship in basketball. For the inhabitants of the Wind River Indian Reservation who have experienced a century and a half of injustice, basketball is a form of empowerment, self-expression, and access to the world outside "the Rez." (2002) |
Rated: NR
Runtime: 87 minutes |
City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal
 |
This HBO documentary examines one of the most notorious incidents in college basketball history, when seven members of the City College of New York (CCNY) basketball team conspired with gamblers to fix games over the 1949-1950 and 1950-1951 seasons. (1998) |
Starring: Narrated by Burt Young and Liev Schreiber.
Rated NR |
Coach
  |
An Olympic Gold medalist is hired to coach the boys basketball team. But when Coach Randy Rawlings arrives, the school's sexist principal discovers he hired a woman. Blocked from firing her due to discrimination laws, he tries to make sure the team loses, so he can fire her for poor performance. (1978) |
Starring: Cathy Lee Crosby, Michael Biehn.
Rated PG
Runtime: 100 minutes |
Coach Carter
  |
A controversial high school basketball coach benches his undefeated team due to their collective poor academic record in 1999. (2005) |
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Rob Brown.
Rated PG-13
Runtime: 76 minutes |
The Cookout
  |
When Todd Anderson signs a $30 million deal with his hometown team, the New Jersey Nets, he knows that his life is set for a big change. To keep things real, he decides to throw a barbeque at his place. But when you have new and old friends, family, agents, and product reps in the same house, things are bound to get crazy. (2004) |
Starring: Ja Rule, Tim Meadows, Jenifer Lewis, Quran Pender, Jonathan Silverman.
Rated PG-13
Runtime: 97 minutes |
Cornbread, Earl and Me
  |
Story of 12-year-old youth trying to escape the ghetto on a basketball scholarship. Plot turns away from the sport after the police accidentally shoot him. (1975) |
Starring: Moses Gunn, Rosalind Cash, Bernie Casey, Madge Sinclair, Jamaal Wilkes, Laurence Fishburne.
Rated PG
Runtime: 96 minutes |
Crossing The Line
  |
Big problems happen for a basketball coach and her high school team when a parent violently erupts at a game. The event stirs community outrage and creates significant changes in the way future sporting events are conducted in the town. This film tackles the horrendous issue of parents losing control at their kids’ athletic events. (2002) |
Starring: Terry Farrell, Adrian Pasdar.
Rated NR
Runtime: 92 minutes |
Crossover
  |
A naturally talented basketball player, Noah Cruise is determined to become a doctor using his basketball scholarship to UCLA pre-med, rather than succumb to the lure of former sports agent Vaughn and go for the NBA. His best friend, the buddy that took the fall for him and did the time for an assault charge, Tech, also an outstanding basketball player, has less lofty ambitions: he wants to get his GED and win an underground street ball game against his arrogant rival, Jewelz. Their lives change drastically when they both fall in love with two local girls and take a fateful trip out to L.A. together. (2006) |
Starring: Tamer Werfali, Gavin J. Behrman.
Rated PG-13
Runtime: 95 minutes |
Double Teamed
  |
Heather and Heidi Burge go to an inner-city school where they play volleyball on a team. Their father decides that they need to go to a bigger school outside of their school area where 6'1 Heather is discovered by the basketball coach. Heidi is into drama but is forced to play basketball by her father. It's discovered that they live out of the school zone so they have to into a small apartment because their father is stuck on them playing basketball. Can they overcome all these obstacles and win the big game? (2002) |
Starring: Poppi Monroe, Annie McElwain.
Rated NR
Runtime: 89 minutes |
Drive, He Said
  |
Drama (directorial debut by Jack Nicholson) about an Ohio college basketball star being pressured to quit and become a campus activist. (1972) |
Starring: William Tepper, Karen Black, Michael Margotta, Bruce Dern, David Ogden Stiers.
Rated R
Runtime: 90 minutes |
Eddie
  |
Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketball team. The team is struggling with a mediocre record when, in mid-season, "Wild Bill" Burgess, the new owner, as a public relations gimmick, stages an 'honorary coach' contest, which Eddie wins. The fans love it, so "Wild Bill" fires the coach and hires her. (1996) |
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Frank Langella.
Rated PG-13
Runtime: 100 minutes |
Edge of America
  |
New man in town, Kenny Williams, has just accepted a position as an English professor at the Three Nations Reservation in Utah. Finding it hard to fit in with the tight-knit Native American community, he decides to take on the challenge of coaching the high school girls' basketball team. (2004) |
Starring: James Mcdaniel, Tim Daly.
Rated NR
Runtime: 106 minutes |
Eight Crazy Nights
  |
Davey Stone, a 33-year old party animal, finds himself in trouble with the law after his wild ways go too far. In keeping with the holiday spirit, the judge gives Davey one last chance at redemption-spend the holiday performing community service as the assistant referee for the youth basketball league or go to jail. In this animated feature about basketball, old girlfriends, holiday spirits, and the mall, Adam Sandler voices the three lead characters. (2002) |
Starring: Adam Sandler, Jackie Sandler.
Rated PG-13
Runtime: 76 minutes |
Fast Break
  |
David Greene is a New York basketball enthusiast, who wants to coach. He is then offered the coaching job at a small Nevada college. His dream team's got a preacher, a jailbird, a pool shark, a muscleman. And the best guy on the team is a girl. To give the team the respect they deserve and some exposure, Greene schemes to try and get the #1 team to play them. (1979) |
Starring: Gabe Kaplan, Harold Sylvester.
Rated PG
Runtime: 106 minutes |
Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story
  |
Based on a true story of Hank Gathers, a basketball player from Loyola Marymount who collapsed and died during a game. Hank is a loudmouth Philly kid who is one of the best high school basketball players in the city. His rival comes in the form of Bo Kimble, a more serious athlete who doesn't care for Hank's reckless behavior. When the two players get recruited by USC, they eventually become friends. Hank and Bo are not really played much the USC team, and head to Loyola Marymount where the two become college sensations. (1992) |
Starring: Victor Love, Duane Davis, George Kennedy Nell Carter.
Rated NR
Runtime: 90 minutes |
Finding Forrester
  |
Because of scoring exceptionaly high on a state wide standardized exam and being an exceptionally good basketball player Jamal Wallace is sent to a prestigious prep school in Manhattan. He soon befriends the reclusive writer, William Forrester. The friendship leads to William to overcome his reclusivness and for Jamal to overcome the racial prejudices and pursue his true dream - writing. (2000) |
Starring: Sean Connery, Rob Brown.
Rated PG-13
Runtime: 136 minutes |
The First Basket
 |
David Vyorst’s documentary explores the impact that basketball had on modern Jewish history, as well as the profound influence that unsung Jewish pioneers had on the evolution of basketball, as it grew from a game played with ash-cans on tenement steps to the second most popular sport in the world.The film contains archive footage of Red Auerbach, Ossie Schectman, and more. (2008) |
Narrated by: Peter Riegert.
Rated NR.
Runtime: 100 minutes |
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
  |
The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become winners. (1979) |
Starring: Julius Erving, Jonathan Winters, Meadowlark Lemon, Flip Wiloson.
Rated PG
Runtime: 104 minutes |
Forget Paris
  |
Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline he flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult patches. The story is told in flashback by their friends at a restaurant waiting for them to arrive. (1995) |
Starring: Billy Crystal, Debra Winger.
Rated PG-13
Runtime: 101 minutes |
Freestyle
 |
Ondene Ondene is beautiful, talented, and destined to study law at Oxford if she gets the required A-Levels. Nothing less will satisfy her domineering mother. When a basketball court is set up near her private school, Ondene is charmed by a charismatic, good-looking freestyle basketball player, Leon, and they decide to enter a competition. From a deprived background, Leon dreams of going to university and needs to win to pay his way. Ondene deceives her mother to be with him, and romance blossoms, only to be crushed when her mother finds out. Balancing her future prospects and her newfound passion, Ondene has to make tough decisions about her family, education, and the man she loves. (2010) |
Starring: Alfie Allen, Chris Wilson, Arinze Kener.
Rated PG-13
Runtime: 101 minutes |
Full Court Miracle
 |
Disney TV-movie based on the true story of Lamont Carr. A Jewish school is in desperate need of a basketball coach and the players convince Carr, a former CBA player, to coach them while he waits for a tryout with the 76ers. Based on a true story. (2003) |
Starring: Richard T. Jones.
Rated NR
Runtime: 90 minutes |
The Gambler
  |
A college professor's compulsive gambling habit forces a star basketball player to shave points in the big game. (1974) |
Starring: James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton, Morris Carnovsky, Burt Young, Vic Tayback, Steven Keats, James Woods, Stuart Margolin.
Rated R
Runtime: 111 minutes |
Game Day
  |
Steven Adler, a one time high profile D1 college basketball coach, is haunted by the demon of having lost five championship titles. Now he finds himself wasting away in a slack-jawed, low profile town coaching a second rate college program. Once again, he has miraculously brought this unlikely team to the finals. As his behavior on the day of the championship game indicates, he is far more successful at the game of basketball than the game of life. If he finally wins the big game, will Coach Adler get his life back on track or is he already too far gone? (1999) |
Starring: Richard Lewis, Sean Squire.
Rated R
Runtime: 109 minutes |
Glory Road
  |
40 years ago, Don Haskins went on the recruiting trail to find the best talent in the land, black or white. 7 blacks and 5 whites made up the legendary 1965-66 Texas Western Miners. They were mocked and ridiculed for their showboating and flaunting of black players on the court. Yet, in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, Haskins and his Miners came together as a team united to reach the National Championship game against powerhouse Kentucky. (2006) |
Starring: Josh Lucas, Derek Luke, Austin Nichols, Jon Voight.
Rated PG
Runtime: 118 minutes |
Go, Man, Go!
 |
The inspirational drama of the famed basketball tricksters, the Harlem Globetrotters. The Trotters began in the 1920s when a manager catches a group of talented players on the basketball court. He becomes obsessed with getting these young black men the recognition he feels they deserve. He gathers them together as a team and they begin barnstorming a series of small towns. The film's climax takes on overtones of the Civil Rights Movement when it depicts a major game between them and an all-white team of champions. (1954) |
Starring: Dane Clark, Patricia Breslin, Sidney Poitier, Edmon Ryan.
Rated NR
Runtime: 82 minutes |
Gunnin' For That #1 Spot
  |
Eight of the U.S.'s top high school basketball players compete in the first "Elite 24" tournament at Rucker Park. (2008) |
Starring: Jerryd Bayless, Michael Beasley, Tyreke Evans, Robert Garcia.
Rated PG-13
Runtime: 90 minutes |
Hardwood
 
|
A documentary about the director's relationship with his father who was a team member of the Harlem Globetrotters. (2004) |
Starring: Hubert Davis, Mel Davis, Aaron Dudley.
Rated: NR
Runtime: 29 minutes |
Harlem Globetrotters On Gilligan Island
 |
In this TV-movie, the famous Harlem Globetrotters crash land on Gilligan's Island, immediately dispatching a terrifying 'shark' by throwing basketballs at it. A mad doctor and his accomplice plan to take over the island for its rich energy supply by scaring off Gilligan and his buddies, but it soon settles to a basketball match between the doctors robots and the aforementioned Globetrotters. (1980) |
Starring: Bob Denver and the cast of Gilligan's Island, Curley Neal and The Harlem Globetrotters.
Rated NR
Runtime: 120 minutes |
The Harlem Globetrotters
 |
The story of the legendary Harlem Globetrotters takes second place to the rise to prominence of All-American athlete Billy Brown. While still in college, Brown drops his education in favor of joining the famed basketball team. Lacking the esprit de corps of his teammates, Brown is only interested in fattening his bank account. It takes a few major setbacks, coupled with the no-nonsense devotion of his sweetheart Ann Carpenter to realign Brown's priorities. Thomas Gomez heads the cast as Abe Saperstein, the real-life entrepreneur who organized the Trotters back in 1927. (1951) |
Starring: Thomas Gomez, Dorothy Dandridge, Bill Walker, Angela Clarke, Peter M. Thompson.
Rated NR
Runtime: 78 minutes |
Harvard Man
  |
Harvard Man is played out against a background of love, sex, basketball, crime and experimentation. It is an ambitious work of action, philosophy and cinematic content that explores what today's young people go through on their quest to discover their true identity. (2001) |
Starring: Adrian Grenier, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Joey Lauren Adams.
Rated R
Runtime: 99 minutes |
He Got Game
  |
Tells the story of Jesus Shuttlesworth, the most sought after high school basketball prospect in the nation. Jesus and his dream to make it to the big ranks in professional basketball are overshadowed by his father, Jake, who is spending his life in prison for killing Jesus' mother. (1998) |
Starring: Denzel Washington, Ray Allen.
Rated R
Runtime: 136 minutes |
The Heart of the Game
  |
A documentary Roosevelt Roughriders, a girls' high-school basketball team in Seattle, and one player's fight to regain her eligibility to play. (2006) |
Starring: Ludacris, Joyce Walker, Devon Crosby Helms, Maude Lepley.
Rated PG-13
Runtime: 97 minutes |
Heaven is a Playground
  |
A coach and a lawyer team up to provide incentives for an urban high school basketball team to stay out of trouble. (1991) |
Starring: Bo Kimle, Michael Warren, D.B. Sweeney
Rated R
Runtime: 107 minutes |
High School Hero
 |
Possibly the first movie ever made about basketball, this film concerns a group of high-school Latin students who endeavor to put on an amateur play. Campus rivals Pete Greer and Bill Merrill use the play as an excuse to continue their battle over the affections of cutie Eleanor Barrett.
There are scenes depicting the basketball game with the jealous fathers, smiling and frowning according to the successful efforts of their respective sons. There is usually some friction between the coach and the principal players just before the important game. (1927) |
Starring: Nick Stuart, Sally Phipps, William Bailey, John Darrow, Wade Boteler.
Rated NR
Runtime: 62 minutes |
Home Of The Giants
 |
Gar is a high school journalist who covers the basketball team as it heads toward a state championship; when his best friend Matt, the team's star, is asked by a drug dealer to throw the big game, Gar inevitably gets caught in the middle. (2008) |
Starring: Haley Joel Osment, Ryan Merriman, Danielle Panabaker. |
Hooked
 
|
The Legend of Demetrius Hook Mitchell tells the story of a playground basketball star whose descent into drugs and crime destroyed any chance he had of becoming a professional athlete. (2003) |
Starring: Jason Kidd, Gary Payton, Demetrius Mitchell, Brian Shaw, Antonio Davis.
Rated: NR
Runtime: 58 minutes |
Hoop Dreams
  |
This documentary follows two inner-city Chicago residents, Arthur Agee and William Gates, as they follow their dreams of becoming basketball superstars. Beginning at the start of their high school years, and ending almost 5 years later, as they start college, we watch the boys mature into men, still retaining their dreams. (1994) |
Starring: William Gates, Arthur Agee.
Rated PG-13
Runtime: 171 minutes |
Hoop Soldiers
  |
After the mysterious death of her brother, a lawyer returns to her hometown. There she learns of the existence of underground, no-holds-barred caged basketball matches that her brother had gotten involved in. Hoping to learn more, she spends more time working near these dangerous games, and learns of the criminal stakes involved. (2001) |
Starring: Byron Browne, Ahmed Cannon, Angelica Frost, Larry 'Tank' Jones, Cassandra King.
Rated R
Runtime: 99 minutes |
Hoosiers
  |
Based on the true story of a small-town Indiana team that made the state finals in 1954, this movie chronicles the attempts of a coach with a spotty past, and the town's basketball-loving drunk to lead their high school team to victory. (1986) |
Starring: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper, Sheb Wooley, Fern Persons.
Rated PG
Runtime: 114 minutes |
Inside Moves
  |
After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Rory begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. When Jerry the bartender suddenly finds himself playing basketball for the Golden State Warriors, Rory and the rest of the bar regulars hope his success will provide a lift to their sagging spirits. Will Jerry forget his friends? What about his junkie hooker girlfriend and her pimp? (1980) |
Starring: John Savage, David Morse, Diana Scarwid, Amy Wright, Tony Burton.
Rated PG
Runtime: 113 minutes |
John Tucker Must Die
  |
When the class-overachiever, the head cheerleader and the vegan alterna-girl discover they're all dating the same guy--namely, star basketball player John Tucker, they recruit a bashful new girl named Kate to become the ideal girl to break Tucker's heart. But as Kate uses the gang's combined wiles to lure Tucker, his interest gives her a social standing she's never had before...an intoxicating experience that may cost her a chance at honest love with another boy. (2006) |
Starring: Jesse Metcalfe, Brittany Snow, Ashanti, Sophia Bush, Arielle Kebbe.
Rated PG-13
Runtime: 90 minutes |
Just Wright
 |
A physical therapist falls for the basketball player she is helping recover from a career-threatening injury. (2010) |
Starring: Queen Latifah, Common, Paula Patton.
Rated PG
Runtime: 100 minutes |
Juwanna Mann
  |
A basketball star is booted out of the NBA when his on-court antics go too far, so he poses as a woman and joins the WUBA. (2002) |
Starring: Miguel A. Núñez Jr., Vivica A. Fox, Kevin Pollak, Tommy Davidson, Kim Wayans.
Rated PG-13
Runtime: 91 minutes |
The Last Game
  |
Hearing impaired Christina isn't very comfortable on the basketball court, but decides to go out for her high school team anyway in hopes of gaining acceptance from her father and siblings. But when her Father becomes ill, she turns to her brother to teach her the skills she'll need to overcome her handicap and become a star. (1995) |
Starring: Joey Travolta, Israel Gonzales, Sherean Neville
Rated NR
Runtime: 75 minutes |
Like Mike
  |
Calvin and his friends, who all live an in orphanage, find old shoes with the faded letters MJ connected to a powerline. One stormy night, they go to get the shoes when Calvin and the shoes are struck by lightning. Calvin now has unbelievable basketball powers and has the chance to play for the NBA. (2002) |
Starring: Bow Wow, Morris Chestnut, Jonathan Lipnicki, Brenda Song.
Rated PG
Runtime: 100 minutes |
Like Mike 2: Streetball
  |
Another young boy with 'hoop dreams' finds an old pair of Michael Jordan's sneakers and can suddenly play ball like the greatest player in the world. (2006) |
Starring: Jascha Washington, Kel Mitchell, Michael Beach, Brett Kelly, Micah Williams.
Rated PG
Runtime: 95 minutes |
Love & Basketball
  |
Monica and Quincy have wanted to be professional basketball stars since they were kids. Monica has had to work hard to establish herself as a presence, while Quincy was born with natural star potential. As the two struggle to reach their goals of playing professionally, they must also deal with their emotions for each other. (2000) |
Starring: Nathaniel Bellamy Jr., Glenndon Chatman, James DuMont, Christine Dunford.
Rated PG-13
Runtime: 127 minutes |
Maurie
 |
After his teammate is stricken with a sudden paralysis, a devoted basketball player decides to devote his life to the rehabilitation of his friend. A touching story of personal devotion and determination. (1973) |
Starring: Bernie Casey, Bo Svenson, Janet MacLachlan, Stephanie Edwards, Paulene Myers.
Rated G
Runtime: 113 minutes |
Michael Jordan to the Max
  |
Follow Michael Jordan's last basketball season as he leads the Chicago Bulls to their 6th NBA Championship. A rare glimpse of Michael on and off the court (2000) |
Starring: Michael Jordan, Phil Jackson, Doug Collins, Bob Greene, Bob Costas.
Rated NR
Runtime: 83 minutes |
Michael Jordan: An American Hero
  |
An unauthorized biography of basketball's greatest player, Michael "Air" Jordan. The exceptionally graceful superstar is shown overcoming the incredible structural hurdles of racism and prejudice as well as the personal hurdle of insecurity. (1999) |
Starring: Michael Jace, Christopher Jacobs, Leah Jediny, Jeff Haas.
Rated PG-13
Runtime: 95 minutes |
Mixed Company
 |
The coach of the struggling Phoenix Suns basketball team finds his already heavy load increased when his wife decides to adopt three more children, a Vietnamese, a black and a Native American. They already have three kids of their own. Now in addition to trying to produce a winning team, he must figure out how to feed three more, and deal with bigoted neighbors. (1974) |
Starring: Barbara Harris, Joseph Bologna, Lisa Gerritsen, Arianne Heller, Stephen Honanie.
Rated PG
Runtime: 109 minutes |
New Jersey Turnpikes
|
The movie is a mockumentary about a financially crippled basketball team in the final days of the American Basketball Association. (1999) |
Starring: Kelsey Grammer, Robert Conrad, Orlando Jones, Layton Morrison, Jason Segel, Lee Majors, Jim Brown, Marcus Brown, Mike Starr. |
O
  |
Odin James is the black star of the basketball team at an otherwise white boarding school. He is headed for big time with his sport and is in love with Desi, the most popular girl in school. Meanwhile, Hugo is the coach's son, but he is outshone on court by Odin, and his father says he thinks of Odin as a son as well. Hugo's feelings of envy and neglect lead him to construct a plot to make Odin doubt Desi's love for him, a plot which Hugo is willing to take to its most extreme consequences. (2001) |
Starring: Julia Stiles, Mekhi Phifer, Josh Hartnett.
Rated R
Runtime: 94 minutes |
On Hallowed Ground: Streetball Champions of Rucker Park
 |
Documentary that deals with street basketball as practiced at Rucker Park in New York's Harlem by such athletes as Earl "the Goat" Manigault, a drug user who squandered his skills and never made it to the National Basketball Association, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Julius Erving. (2000) |
Starring: Narrated by Andre Braugher.
Rated NR
Runtime: 90 minutes |
One On One
  |
Henry Steele is a basketball phenom at his small town high school, but when he matriculates to a big city university on a scholarship, soon realizes that he has few skills outside the sport. Expected by his coach to contribute significantly to the team, Henry is overwhelmed by the demands on his time, the "big business" aspect of college sports, and the fact that he never fully learned to read. Things look bleak for Henry when Janet Hays, a pretty graduate student, is assigned as Henry's tutor. Her intellect and strength lift Henry out of his doldrums just in time to battle the coach, who attempts to rescind Henry's scholarship. (1977) |
Starring: Robby Benson, Cory Faucher, Melanie Griffith, Ron Holiday.
Rated PG
Runtime: 98 minutes |
One Special Victory
|
When a self-involved real estate agent is given fifty hours of community service to do by a judge, he becomes the coach for a basketball team of developmentally challenged adults. In trying to teach them, he learns. (1991) |
Starring: John Larroquette, Kathy Baker, Joe Pantoliano.
Rated NR
Runtime: 96 minutes |
Passing Glory
  |
An angry black priest in 1960's New Orleans goes against the wishes of his parish leader as he pushes a basketball game between his unbeaten all-black team and an undefeated all-white prep school team. (1999) |
Starring: Andre Braugher, Rip Torn, Sean Squire, Ruby Dee.
Rated NR
Runtime: 100 minutes |
Pickup Polka
 |
All you need for a pickup game is a court, a basketball, some sweat and a boombox. But what happens when guys with their own accordion player and dancers walk in to mix it up? This film was featured at the 2003 L.A. Film Festival. |
Starring: Directed by Chris M. Collins.
Rated NR
Runtime: 7 minute short |
Pistol: The Birth of a Legend
  |
A story about the great basketball player "Pistol" Pete Maravich when he was in the eighth grade. He plays on the varsity basketball team at Daniel High School but has some very difficult obstacles standing in his way of playing. The only support he has is from his father, retired basketball pro Press Maravich. (1991) |
Starring: Millie Perkins, Nick Benedict, Adam Guier, Murrell Garland.
Rated G
Runtime: 104 minutes |
The Real: Rucker Park Legends
 
|
A New York City Parks employee named Holcombe Rucker encouraged Harlem kids to stay in school with a basketball tournament and league that would develop into an international phenomenon. Upon his death, two of his pupils continued his work, pairing up basketball's greats with disadvantaged youth. The innovative idea attracted such legends as Wilt Chamberlin, Julius Erving, Kareem Abdul-Jabaar and more. (2006) |
Starring: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Ron Artest, Julius Erving.
Rated: NR
Runtime: 76 minutes |
Rebound
  |
An acclaimed college hoops coach is demoted to a junior varsity team after a public meltdown. (2005) |
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Breckin Meyer, Horatio Sanz.
Rated PG
Runtime: 103 minutes |
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
  |
A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault, with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young kids of Harlem. (1996) |
Starring: Don Cheadle, James Earl Jones.
Rated R
Runtime: 111 minutes |
Red Sneakers
  |
Reggie Reynolds is a high school student who is good in the classroom but not so good on the basketball court. One day he meets a junk dealer who gives him a pair of old gym shoes that once were worn by an all-star in the Negro Basketball leagues in the 1930's. Reggie puts the red sneakers on and he is immediately playing like a superstar on the basketball court. He gets the attention of a major shoe company executive who wants Reggie to switch from the old red sneakers that he is wearing to his company's brand. But Reggie knows if he's not wearing those magical old red sneakers he is back on the sideline. (2002) |
Starring: Dempsey Pappion, Vincent D'Onofrio, Gregory Hines.
Rated NR
Runtime: 109 minutes |
Scooby-Doo Meets The Harlem Globetrotters
  |
The Harlem Globetrotters partner in Scooby's ghostbusting investigations. There are three HG episodes: The Ghostly Creep from the Deep, The Mystery of Haunted Island and The Lochness Mess. (1972 & 1973) |
Starring: Don Messick, Casey Kasem, Frank Welker, Heather North.
Rated G
Runtime: 87 minutes |
A Season On The Brink
  |
Spend a year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers based on the best-selling book by John Feinstein. The movie chronicles Indiana's 1985-86 season, when Knight granted Feinstein unprecedented access to the team and its practices, meetings, and huddles. (2002) |
Starring: Brian Dennehy.
Rated
Runtime: 87 minutes |
Semi-Pro
  |
Jackie Moon, the owner-coach-player of the American Basketball Association's Flint Michigan Tropics, rallies his teammates to make their NBA dreams come true. (2008) |
Starring: Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson
Rated R
Runtime: 91 minutes |
Shirts/Skins
 |
Six businessmen who have a weekly after-hours basketball game get caught up in a bet about a hide-and-seek contest. (1973) |
Starring: Rene Auberjonois, Bill Bixby, Leonard Frey, Doug McClure, McLean Stevenson, Robert Walden.
Rated NR
Runtime: 74 minutes |
Slam Dunk Ernest
  |
Ernest P. Worrell becomes a basketball star after an angel bearing an uncanny resemblance to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gives him a pair of magic sneakers. (1995) |
Starring: Jim Varney, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jay Brazeau.
Rated PG
Runtime: 93 minutes |
Something To Cheer About
 
|
A documentary about the Crispus Attucks Tigers, the first all-black high school basketball team to win a US state championship. (2002) |
Starring: Hallie Bryant, Ray Crowe, Willie Merriweather, Oscar Robertson.
Rated: NR
Runtime: 90 minutes |
Soul In The Hole
  |
This documentary focuses on an inner city basketball team named "Kenny's Kings" from Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, NY, and its star player, Ed "Booger" Smith", as well as his coach and mentor, Kenny Jones. The action takes place on the mean streets and follows the team during one long, hot summer, as they play the inner city tournament circuit. (1996) |
Starring: Kenny Jones, Ronnet Jones, Ed Smith.
Rated NR
Runtime: 90 minutes |
Space Jam
  |
Michael Jordan agrees to help the Looney Toons play a basketball game vs. alien slavers to determine their freedom. (1996) |
Starring: Michael Jordan, Billy West), Wayne Knight, Theresa Randle.
Rated PG
Runtime: 88 minutes |
Streetballers
 |
A story capturing the poetic nature of street basketball, highlighting the struggles endured on and off the court by the purest of athletes. Constantly searching for sanity in the midst of alcoholism, racism, and drugs, John Hogan and Jacob Whitmore, two junior college basketball players, find release and therapy while competing at one of the most competitive and poetic street courts in the U.S. (2008) |
Starring: Jimmy McKinney, Matt Krentz, Adrienne Perez. |
The St. Tammany Miracle
  |
A special coach turns a girls' basketball team around and takes them all the way to the state finals. (1994) |
Starring: Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Soleil Moon Frye, Jamie Lunar, Jeffrey Meek, Julie McCullough.
Rated NR
Runtime: 90 minutes |
Sunset Park
  |
A white school teacher takes over a talented, but undisciplined black high school basketball team and turns them into a winning team. (1996) |
Starring: Rhea Perlman, Fredro Starr, Carol Kane, Terrence Howard.
Rated R
Runtime: 99 minutes |
Sweetwater
 |
A chronicle of the life of Sweetwater Clifton, the first black player signed by the NBA. (2008) |
Starring: Wood Harris, Lil' Romeo, Ed Lauter. |
Tall Story
  |
A co-ed is so smitten with the college's star basketball player that she does everything to be near him to get him to fall for her, but things get complicated when he has to pass a major exam in order to play in the big game against the visting Russian team. (1960) |
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Jane Fonda.
Rated NR
Runtime: 89 minutes |
Teen Wolf
  |
A high-schooler finds himself slowly turning into a werewolf and it becomes an asset in his popularity in school and on the basketball court. (1985) |
Starring: Michael J. Fox, James Hampton, Scott Paulin, Susan Ursitti, Jerry Levine.
Rated PG
Runtime: 92 minutes |
That Championship Season
  |
Four former high school basketball champions and their coach come together annually to celebrate the year they won the Pennsylvania State Basketball Championship. But this year, instead of the usual whimsical nostalgia they usually experience, the former friends and teammates unleash all their secrets on each other so that the foundation of their lives begins to crumble. (1999) |
Starring: Vincent D'Onofrio, Terry Kinney, Tony Shalhoub, Gary Sinise, Paul Sorvino.
Rated R
Runtime: 127 minutes |
That Championship Season
  |
It started as a friendly meeting between 4 old buddies with their basketball coach and ended up in revealing the truth about their relationship. The meeting forces the five men to reveal their true identity, to be honest with each other for the first time in their lives. When the night comes to an end they decide to go back to the old glorious days and reunite into the team which won that championship season, back in 1957. (1982) |
Starring: Bruce Dern, Stacy Keach, Robert Mitchum, Martin Sheen, Paul Sorvino.
Rated R
Runtime: 108 minutes |
Through the Fire
  |
During his senior year in high school, basketball star Sebastian Telfair wrestles with the idea of taking his Coney Island team to the championship, decide whether to attend college or go pro, secure an endorsement deal, and get his family out of the projects. An ESPN documentary. (2005) |
Starring: Asher Beard, Nyan Boateng, Renan Ebeid, Dwight Howard, Jay-Z.
Rated NR
Runtime: 102 minutes |
White Men Can't Jump
  |
Billy and Sydney think they're the best basketball hustlers in town, so when they join forces, nothing can stop them, except each other. To add to their problems, Billy owes money and is being chased by a pair of gangster types. (1992) |
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson.
Rated R
Runtime: 115 minutes |
The White Shadow
 
|
TV series from 1978-1981 focussed on a white former NBA professional who retires from the pro game and gets a job as a basketball coach in a predominantly black inner-city high school. (1978) |
Starring: Ken Howard, Kevin Hooks, Timothy Van Patten, Byron Stewart, Joan Pringle.
Rated: NR
Runtime: 60 minutes per episode. |
