Hoop Dreams (1994)

Follows the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.

About people before it's about athletic feats. It respects its subjects' complexity and tenacity while nailing the problematic, double-edged influence of sports in America.
- Boston Globe

Takes us, shakes us, and make us think in new ways about the world around us.
- Chicago Sun-Times

Chronicles its subjects' growth from instinctively going for the goal to deciding which goals are worth shooting for.
- Philadelphia Inquirer

Sundance Film Festival won the Audience Award for Best Documentary
98 Metacritic score
warning: 3 hours
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf9Nq2ju0t0

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Available with a subscription on Hulu, Max, and the Criterion Channel
For rent on Amazon, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home

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