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Whatever It Takes is a 2000 American teen comedy film directed by David Raynr and starring Shane West, Marla Sokoloff, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, and James Franco. It was released in the United States on March 24, 2000. The film's story is a modern update of the 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand.
Gene Hackman's Norman Dale takes a job coaching a high school basketball team in Hickory, Indiana, in this Oscar-nominated movie, widely considered to be one of the basketball films of all time ...
Another bullet point in the “white savior” movie pantheon, Sunset Park tells the story of an inept inner-city gym teacher (Rhea Perlman) who takes over her high school’s basketball team to ...
1. Hoosiers. Hollywood feel-good movie-making at its finest, this 1986 classic features Gene Hackman as Norman Dale, who brings a checkered past to his role as head coach at Hickory High. Based on ...
Michael Michele Williams (born August 30, 1966) [1] is an American actress and fashion designer. [2] She began her career on stage before appearing opposite Wesley Snipes in the 1991 film New Jack City.
Sunset Park is a 1996 American sports comedy drama film directed by Steve Gomer, based upon a screenplay by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld and Kathleen McGhee-Anderson. [2] [3] The film stars Rhea Perlman as the head coach of a high school boys basketball team from the Sunset Park neighborhood in New York City.
After several rounds of callbacks, he landed the part of star player Jimmy Chitwood. [1] Of the eight young men cast as team members, Valainis was one of two who had never played high school basketball. [2] The scene in Hoosiers with Jimmy Chitwood and Coach Norman Dale talking while Jimmy is shooting baskets at an outdoor basket was filmed in ...
The documentary follows Wilson's life from birth, to adolescence, to his prolific career at Simeon Career Academy – the former high school home of Derrick Rose, Deon Thomas, and Jabari Parker.