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Hoop Dreams  1994
Director:  Steve James
Producer:
  Frederick Marx, Steve James and Peter Gilbert
Editor:
  William Haugse, Steve James and Frederick Marx
Music:
  Ben Sidram
Screenplay:
  Steve James and Frederick Marx
Director of Photography:
  Peter Gilbert
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Cast:
spacer1 William Gates spacer1 Arthur Agee spacer1 Emma Gates spacer1 Curtis Gates
spacer1 Sheila Agee spacer1 Arthur ÔBo' Agee spacer1 Isiah Thomas spacer1 Sister Maryln Hopewell
spacer1 Bill Gleason spacer1 Earl Smith spacer1 Catherine Mines spacer1 Bobby Knight
spacer1 William Gates spacer1 Arthur Agee spacer1 Emma Gates
spacer1 Curtis Gates spacer1 Sheila Agee spacer1 Arthur ÔBo' Agee
spacer1 Isiah Thomas spacer1 Sister Maryln Hopewell spacer1 Bill Gleason
spacer1 Earl Smith spacer1 Catherine Mines spacer1 Bobby Knight
spacer1 William Gates spacer1 Arthur Agee
spacer1 Emma Gates spacer1 Curtis Gates
spacer1 Sheila Agee spacer1 Arthur ÔBo' Agee
spacer1 Isiah Thomas spacer1 Sister Maryln Hopewell
spacer1 Bill Gleason spacer1 Earl Smith
spacer1 Catherine Mines spacer1 Bobby Knight

Synopsis:
This award-winning documentary covers four years in the lives of two young black teenagers from the Chicago slums, William Gates and Arthur Agee, who dream of becoming basketball players. They are spotted by talent scouts, and offered scholarships to a prestigious college in the largely white suburbs. There Arthur, struggling with the academic grades he must reach to keep his scholarship, fails and is asked to leave. William, however, goes from strength to strength, receiving extra funding, keeping up his grades (just) and becoming a real star on the basketball court. Then disaster: he badly injures his knee and has to undergo two operations. William, meantime, has had a baby with his girlfriend. Continuing to provide a fascinating insight into the lives of its two teenage protagonists, Hoop Dreams unflinchingly chronicles their trials and tribulations, despite which, their dreams of slam dunk glory remain undimmed.

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