A college basketball coach is forced to break the rules in order to get the players he needs to stay competitive and it leads him into dangerous ethical compromises.
19 May 1976, Mauldin, South Carolina, USA
1974
17 November 1944, Lyons, New York, USA
6 March 1972, Newark, New Jersey, USA
12 July 1969, Didam, Gelderland, Netherlands
9 June 1939, East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA
28 September 1943, San Francisco, California, USA
12 April 1946, Youngstown, Ohio, USA
21 September 1964
25 October 1940, Massillon, Ohio, USA
8 April 1963, Belize City, British Honduras
15 December 1970, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 June 1971, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
March 25, 2008
Watching various hoop stars and legends trying to act is cringeworthy, O'Neal particularly bad, but Friedkin's movie, written by sports film specialist Shelton has a lot of passion.
June 24, 2006
This hard-hitting college basketball drama marks a notable return to form for William Friedkin.
May 20, 2003
If Mr. Friedkin didn't have to work so strenuously framing two-shots of Mr. Nolte with this seven-foot athlete, it might be hard to remember that Mr. O'Neal has a day job.
March 25, 2008
A deafness-inducing but otherwise ho-hum would-be expose of shady recruiting practices by college basketball programs.
January 01, 2000
If it wasn't for some exciting roundball action, Shaquille O'Neal's hulking-dunking presence and a wonderfully guttural performance from coach Nick Nolte, you'd slither off the bench asleep.
July 25, 2002
Worth seeing for Nolte's force-of-nature performance and the novelty of Shaq "emoting."
January 01, 2000
The on-court action is fairly bland, and photographed from all the wrong angles.
May 26, 2006
[An] effective, if overlong basketball drama.
March 25, 2008
A good concept fails to become a good movie in this predictable tale of corruption in college basketball.
January 01, 2000
Much of the movie's problem, I suspect, comes from the vast use of non-professionals in dramatic roles, whose charismatic abilities should be restricted to the basketball court and not the dramatic arena.
March 25, 2008
Not even an unsentimental basketball fan like director William Friedkin can wash away all the corn syrup.
January 01, 2000
The filmmakers don't get the ball into the Shaq-man's hands enough -- both literally and figuratively -- to make this personable giant's screen debut memorable.
