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The Basketball Fix: 1951 Drama A college player in need of money agrees to shave points for a gambler. [2] The Harlem Globetrotters: 1951 Drama A new kind of basketball team dazzles audiences with its skills. Go Man Go: 1954 Biographical Origin of the Harlem Globetrotters, featuring Sidney Poitier as a player. [3] Tall Story: 1960 Comedy
The movie ranks near the very bottom when it comes to portraying quality basketball, but Teen Wolf, as his classmates eventually call him, somehow becomes an incredible athlete, ball hog, and ...
The movie skipped a crucial game that Texas Western had played. On March 18, 1966, the Miners defeated Utah 85–78 in the Final Four to advance to the national championship game the following night. In the movie the team played against Kansas in the regional final and the following game was the national championship, which is incorrect. [5]
TV sequel to the 1979 movie. Laker Girls: 1990 Drama Television film about the Los Angeles basketball dance team. Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story: 1992 Drama TV film based on Wanda Holloway's 1991 attempt to hire a hit man to kill the mother of her daughter's cheerleading rival. With Lesley Ann Warren as Holloway.
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 ...
There are flops — "Like Mike" — but more times than not, they do some justice in depicting the game that we all love.
The story of the colorful figures who made up the American Basketball Association's Spirits of St. Louis, and how Spirits owners Ozzie and Daniel Silna, with their team about to be left out in the ABA's merger with the NBA, managed to negotiate a deal that allowed the brothers' involvement in pro basketball to continue in a most unusual fashion.
The film features cameos from college basketball personalities such as Jerry Tarkanian and Dick Vitale. The film was released in the United States on March 28, 1997 [ 1 ] to negative reviews from critics and mild box office success, grossing almost $15 million.