If you love basketball, this is your movie

Rating: 8/10 (20 May 1999)

A great performance by Denzel Washington, a so-so story line but wonderful basketball vignettes and weirdly appropriate music by Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid, music from the movies Our Town, The Red Pony, The Heiress, etc., and a chilling couple of scenes using Copland's Orchestral Variations, which is his orchestration of his famous Piano Variations). A good solid performance by Jim Brown, of all people. Highly recommended.