The Heart of the Game
Documentary
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2005
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The Heart of the Game captures the passion and energy of a Seattle high school girls' basketball team as they strive to win the state championship, the eccentricity of their unorthodox coach, and the incredible true story of one player's fight to play the game she loves.
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Runtime:
97 min
Release date:
11 Jun 2005
Country:
US
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
3 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Girls have hoop dreams too. And dreams can come true at the final buzzer.
– Richard Corliss,
TIME Magazine,
1 Aug 2008
rotten:
[The film] covers seven years and touches on some of the same social issues that gave Hoop Dreams its epic sweep, yet Serrill fails to treat any of them adequately, and the narrative loses its shape as events unfold.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
26 Mar 2007
rotten:
The intrusive narration, from hip hopper Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges, offers little sense of real lives unfolding, more of a way being paved to an, admittedly tense, all-American triumph-over-adversity climax.
– Nick Funnell,
Time Out,
30 Dec 2006
fresh:
Emotional, uplifting, vexing and infuriating, it's the first basketball documentary worthy of being compared to 1994's Hoop Dreams.
– Roger Moore,
Orlando Sentinel,
18 Aug 2006
fresh:
Sketchy as it can be at times, The Heart of the Game keeps us involved.
– Robert Denerstein,
Denver Rocky Mountain News,
21 Jul 2006