sfp20 I didn't care for the movie. It seemed like a lifetime movie or something.What kept going through my mind is if the coach actually cared about his team, he wouldn't have had issues with him players going elsewhere. If you had students that had potential, you're holding them back by having them play in a broken city where they won't get visibility.As for the team building exercises and stuff like that, that was good. I could see focusing on basketball helping build a team and doing so could be a distraction that relieves some of the pressures of being in a destroyed city.

nicholls_les I guess you have to remember this film says 'based' on true events not a fully true life story. Although I loved the bit at the end with the real team and coach. I thought the film was very good and extremely entertaining. All the cast were spot on and the basketball looked very realistic. I don't particularly like Forest Whitaker as an actor but in this film he did a fine job. But it was really all the supporting cast that carried this film and despite the content and setting there was very little bad language and no sex scenes so this makes it one of those rare films that the whole family can watch. I bought this on DVD only because it was cheap but I am very glad that I did.

oliveoyl-1 This is a wonderful movie. Too bad that it was not managed properly. The story needed to be told and will be one of the greats as far as I am concerned. The acting is superb, it brings the devastation of Katrina into each American home like no news reports could. It is an injustice to consider this movie just another "out of the ashes" "feel good" story. During the time of Katrina I could not help but wonder why we Americans had allowed the Patriot Act and Homeland Security to start taking over our lives, when mother nature is a much more formidable force than any terrorist acts. This movie made me think about how great people are when they have the resolve to do the extraordinary because of rather than despite insurmountable odds.

ebabin41 This was a great movie, but being born and raised in Marrero,La. (still living here), and also attending John Ehret High School, the "Facts" in this movie is very misleading. It is true with the players from 5 different schools coming together to win it all. But, the reason why they all got together at John Ehret is because it was one of the few schools opened at the time. For instance, in the scene where the coach goes to the gym after Katrina, and it is destroyed and full of water, that is no where near the truth. John Ehret had ZERO damage from the storm, in fact the entire west bank had some wind damage to houses, but NONE of the area flooded at all. Also, this movie was filmed at a vacant school in Chalmette, La. and though the makers made an attempt to make it look like Ehret, it is no where close. All in All, I enjoyed the movie, but that is all it is, movie.