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www.filmthreat.com - : Like ''Hoop Dreams,'' Spike Lee's latest revolves around a hot high school basketball star (NBær Ray Allen as the kid poetically named Jesus) and like ''Blue Chips,'' it's about the dirty business of college recruitment. Denzel Washington gives a slam-dunk performance as Jesus' temperamental father, serving a prison term for the death of his wife. He gets furloughed with the promise of a shortened sentence if he can convince Jesus to attend the Governor's alma mater. Lee makes... more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : Spike Lee brings the spirit of a poet to his films about everyday reality. ``He Got Game,'' the story of the pressures on the nation's best high school basketball player, could have been a gritty docudrama, but it's really more of a heartbreaker, about a father and his son. more...
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movie-reviews.colossus.net - : Writer/director Spike Lee is known to be a huge basketball fan (to be specific, a New York Knicks fan). Consequently, He Got Game has been described as ''Lee's basketball film.'' Such a label is misleading. Like the 1994 documentary, Hoop Dreams, the basketball court is only an arena for a larger, deeper drama. Hoosiers is a basketball movie; He Got Game is a story about life, relationships, and the pressures of fame. Those in search of a film that ends with a championship match-up will be disappointed -- He Got Game's only court action takes place in playgrounds and on the street. more...
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