More Than A Game

Year: 2008

Grade: B+

Country: USA

Director: Belman

Review

pretty good documentary about the national champion saint vincent saint mary high school basketball team which is probably most well known for having lebron james on the team. it’s a bit oddly structured – it will tell the story of one or two players and then it tells the story of the team and then it tells the story of another player, then more about the team. the result is getting background about a couple of the guys pretty far into the film. aside from that it’s a good story about friends and basketball and fame and fatherhood and the hood and much more. it seems that, overall, james and his friends did things the right way and didn’t get caught up in a lot of the troubling things that inner city kids deal with. granted they were a talented bunch who were thus able to go to a nice school, but it’s still a good story. from a basketball standpoint it’s easy to see why they were so good. lebron is among the 5-10 greatest players ever, but even if he weren’t they had a great chemistry. good ball movement, good shot making ability, good work ethic, etc.

Watched in theater