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More Than a Game
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Based on 18 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Documentary
Written by:
Kristopher Belman
Kristopher Belman
Directed by: Kristopher Belman
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 2, 2009
DVD: February 2, 2010
Running Time: 105 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG for brief mild language and incidental smoking
Starring LeBron James
Five talented young basketball players from Akron, Ohio star in this remarkable true-life coming of age story about uncommon friendship in the face all too common adversities. Coached by a charismatic but inexperienced player’s father, and led by future NBA superstar LeBron James, the “Fab Five’s” improbable seven-year journey leads them from a decrepit inner-city gym to the doorstep of a national high school championship. Along the way, the close-knit team is repeatedly tested—both on and off the court—as James’ exploding worldwide celebrity threatens to destroy everything they’ve set out to achieve together. More Than a Game combines a series of unforgettable one-on-one interviews with rare news footage, never-before-seen home videos and personal family photographs to bring this heart-warming and wholly American story to life. (Lionsgate)
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What The Critics Said
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The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
This is one helluva good movie that craves the eyeballs of as many American high schoolers as it can possibly get.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
It's the die-hard camaraderie that undergirded this squad and lifted it to the top.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
A knockout of a sports documentary. Destined against its will to be known as "the LeBron James movie," it is all that, and a good deal more.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Michael Dequina
The film is filled with extraordinary characters and equally extraordinary circumstances that Hollywood could craft no better in any feature script.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
While More Than a Game is a terrific exhibition of talent, exuberance and skill, it is above all a moving tribute to enduring friendship.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Fascinating not only for its portrait of an emergent--and endearing--superstar, but for the evolution of three teammates the young LeBron came to love, and the hard-driving coach who evolved with them.
Read Full Review >St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe Williams
Unfortunately, producers (including James) went for the easy layup, showing so much on-court action instead of trying to hustle for insights about sports and society.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Mark Feeney
A missed opportunity is the effect of the school on the boys, and vice versa. Instead of sociology, More Than a Game focuses on personality.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
The art is lacking, but the material is remarkable enough to make up for pedestrian filmmaking.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
The result would make an excellent inspirational video for aspiring players, but it's not quite ready for the pros.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
Belman doesn’t look into the bigger problems of James’ team jet-setting across the country during the school year, or the spectacle allowed to build up around him. He cares most about what happens on the court, which is diverting and fun as far as it goes, but not close to the whole story.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
The final message is a strong one: Even when the starting forward is one of the best high school players ever, basketball is still a team sport.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
The documentary hasn’t the depth of another study of high school ball, "Hoop Dreams,"' and tends toward repetition, but, in the end, its heartfelt saga scores.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Nick Pinkerton
Good game footage, a few clear looks at the kids behind it, but mostly as processed as "Space Jam."
Read Full Review >Time Out New York Nick Schager
With the film heavily favoring extensive on-court footage at the expense of in-depth individual portraits, the “more” offered here is merely skin-deep, basketball-is-a-brotherhood uplift.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
Like one of those five-minute featurettes on star athletes deployed to soak up time on the pregame show -- expanded to a paralytic length.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
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