Hoop Dreams 1994 Watch Free in HD

This documentary follows two young African-Americans through their high school years as they perfect their skills in basketball in the hopes of getting a college scholarship and eventually play in the NBA. Arthur Agee and William Gates both show great potential and are are actively recruited as they look to enter high school. They start off at the same high school but unable to pay an unexpected bill for tuition fees, Arthur has to withdraw and go to the local public high school. The film follows them through their four years of high school and their trials and tribulations: injuries, slumps and the never ending battle to maintain their grades. Through it all, their hoop dreams continue.

Genre:

Drama, Sport

Actors:

William Gates, Arthur Agee, Emma Gates, Curtis Gates, Sheila Agee, Arthur Bo Agee, Earl Smith, Gene Pingatore, Isiah Thomas, Marlyn Hopewell, Bill Gleason, ...»

Director:

Steve James

Country:

United States

Release:

1994

IMDb:

8.3

Quality:

Duration:

170 min

Chicago Reader

A heady dose of the American dream and the American nightmare combined -- a numbing investigation of how one point on an exam or one basket or turnover in a game can make all the difference in a family's fortunes.

March 21, 2007

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Common Sense Media

Stunning documentary, great for older kids.

January 01, 2011

Playback:stl

... well worth your time for the up close and personal view it provides of how issues of race and class play out in the lives of these talented young men and their families.

August 19, 2016

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Newsweek

Hoop Dreams has shown us that the rules of the game are stacked against kids like Gates and Agee. Even better, it shows us how they fight back, with the inside moves of hope.

March 31, 2008

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Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Epic is a word that suits Hoop Dreams well: The film seems to encompass not just a few individuals' stories, but draw archetypes out of them to personify the larger world around.

January 24, 2011

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Hollywood Reporter

An ironic drama so beautifully sculpted it could be transposed without alteration into a fictional film.

June 08, 2005

ReelTalk Movie Reviews

It slam-dunks documentaries that are so close-up to their subjects they cannot note the irony of adult commercialism and hard-sell hoopla overwhelming barely literate kids.

August 07, 2011

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Variety

A prodigious achievement that conveys the fabric of modern American life, aspirations and incidentally, sports, in close-up and at length, Hoop Dreams is a documentary slam dunk.

March 21, 2007

Time Out

Unforgettable.

June 24, 2006

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Film4

The result not only follows the lives of the boys as they mature into men, suffering success and disaster along the way, but also provides a picture of tough inner-city life shorn of glamour or unnecessary melodrama.

March 24, 2008

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ColeSmithey.com

Steve James's remarkable example of cinéma vérité tells the problematic journey of high school basketball stars William Gates and Arthur Agee, two African-American teenagers growing up in Chicago ghettos.

July 16, 2013

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TIME Magazine

It's about three hours long. But it moves like Isiah, fast and smooth, and it's over in a heartbreak.

August 03, 2008

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