It’s more than its cliched title would suggest. In fact, it’s the best basketball sports doc since “Hoop Dreams.”
Kristopher Belman’s impressive film traces basketball phenom LeBron James and his teammates from their humble beginnings in an Akron, Ohio, gym to their amazing national high school championship nine years later, coached all along by one of the players’ fathers.
Heartwarming and triumphant, the doc doesn’t shy away from the negative impact of publicity and how it pulls James away from his peers, and for a while, threatens to trip up their potential for sports greatness. (Read more…) Rated: PG. 102 minutes.
Opens Friday, October 16 at the River East 21 and the Century Centre in Chicago, the CineArts 6 in Evanston and other select locations.