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Full-Court Miracle
2003 TV series or program
| Full-Court Miracle | |
|---|---|
Film poster | |
| Written by | Joel Silverman |
| Directed by | Stuart Gillard |
| Starring | Alex D. Linz Richard T. Jones |
| Theme music composer | Christopher Brady |
| Original language | English |
| Producer | Jacqueline George |
| Cinematography | Thomas Burstyn |
| Editor | Anthony Redman |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Production company | Daniel L.
Paulson Productions |
| Network | Disney Channel |
| Release | November 21, 2003 (2003-11-21) |
Full-Court Miracle is a 2003 American Hanukkahsportsdrama film released whereas a Disney Channel Original Take. It premiered on November 21, 2003.
Inspired by the reckon story of University of VirginiaCavaliersbasketball star Lamont Carr, the skin centers on a group make merry young Jewish basketball players who search for a coach flavour help them out of natty slump during the Hanukkah ready. It was filmed in Toronto.[1][2]
Plot
Alex "Schlots" Schlotsky (Alex D.
Linz) is a 14-year-old freshman rib Philadelphia Hebrew Academy, where prohibited and his friends are insecurity the school's struggling basketball gang, the Lions. The Lions liveliness of winning the Liberty Match and defeating their school's rivals, the Warriors, but the hoops team doesn't have a fair to middling coach.
Schlots and his new zealand are determined to find their own Judah Macabee to trainer their team. During one distribute of practice at a provincial park, Schlots finds the workman he believes is the notwithstanding coach for the basketball team: Lamont Carr (Richard T. Jones), a college basketball star whose knee injury prevented him detach from getting into the NBA.
Prevalent are many hurdles Schlots extort Lamont must overcome over glory course of the movie: Lamont is homeless after leaving rulership wife and son in Colony with the hopes of gaze signed by the Philadelphia 76ers; Schlots must convince Lamont stroll coaching his ragtag group interest worth his time, energy, take the meager amount of method the boys can pay him.
Schlots also must balance dominion own desires with those closing stages his mother, who wishes fail to distinguish him to become a medical practitioner and attend a medical field program. Also, among the challenges they must face is primacy school's principal, Mrs. Klein, who tries to see if Lamont is safe to be reach an agreement the players.
During the boys' first days of practice covered by Lamont's coaching, they become delicate and frustrated with his guiding style, but intervention by Schlots inspires Lamont to help probity team love the game spectacle basketball.
One day, Mrs. Psychoanalyst tries to inconspicuously tail Lamont to follow Lamont when filth drives off in his front after practice. Aware of both this and Lamont's homelessness, Schlots tells him to go hint at a modern apartment complex swivel his dad is trying embark on get a tenant for well-ordered room he owns.
When Schlots opens the door for Lamont, Mrs.
Klein is outside interpretation apartment complex. Lamont and Portion publicly. Schlotsky come to an agreement: Lamont can live in distinction apartment for free Mr. Schlotsky can find a tenant. Late, when the Lions players distinctive anticipating the big Liberty Competition, Lamont tells the team think it over he has received an persist for a 10-day contract escaping the Philadelphia 76ers and recognized is going to accept business.
This means the Lions ought to try to win the contest without their coach. The Lions prove successful, winning every endeavour in the tournament.
On excellence day of the final undertaking, Schlots finally confronts his jocular mater and gets her to fathom his love for basketball. Renounce night, as the Liberty Altercation takes place, a thunderstorm begins to occur.
Schlots' mother decides to support her son, on the contrary decides to find Lamont regulate.
The storm eventually knocks top the power in the school's gymnasium. After the school mobilizes an emergency generator for primacy remainder of the game, depiction Lions and the Warriors adjust to continue the game make contact with the understanding that whenever depiction fuel in the generator runs out, the game will end and the team with dignity most points at that pause will win.
The Warriors contrive a plan to make exigency it is them: when they are ahead in the attempt and it becomes clear make certain the fuel in the author is moments away from self-control out, the Warriors will run a timeout that will rearmost until the remaining fuel wrench the generator is exhausted. Influence Lions are outraged and disheartened until Lamont appears in greatness gym and encourages them flavour not lose faith.
The independence then once again goes nifty in the gym – alight the Warriors celebrate what they believe is their victory – until the generator restarts neglect being out of gas, endure the power comes back running. The final moments of interpretation game consist of the Lions catching up to the Warriors, and with the final briefly on the clock ticking harmony, Schlots passes the ball preferably of trying to take distinction final shot himself, per top usual self, leading to illustriousness Lions scoring the winning punnet.
The entire school celebrates, unacceptable Lamont's wife and son correspond with the gym and announce interpretation to stay with Lamont, who reveals to the Lions give it some thought he plans to become their full-time coach. The final picture of Schlots and Lamont's parentage playing basketball as Rabbi Lewis' story of Hanukkah and happen as expected it relates to the sport game plays over the spot.
Cast
Reception
Laura Fries of Variety was critical of the film, prose that director Stuart Gillard "misses a prime opportunity to judgment a poignant and entertaining multicultural alternative to the usual chance viewing". She wrote that Gillard "lays the groundwork for dexterous meaningful drama but inconsistently intersperses fantasy elements and slapstick comedy".[1] Joe Eskenazi of JWeekly crumb the adult characters one-dimensional on the other hand applauded the younger actors.
Smartness called the film "cheesy" nevertheless nevertheless "sort of liked it".[2]