Notes: | Based on the book by Rick Telander. Originally produced as motion picture in 1991. Hi-fi ultra-stereo. Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. Rated R. Director, screenplay, Randall Fried ; producers, Keith Bank and Billy Higgins ; co-producers, John Banta, Tony Kamin ; executive producers, William V. Stuart, Douglas S. Cook, Larry Edwards ; co-executive producers, William Eichengreen and Leonard Pomerantz ; director of photography, Tom Richmond ; editor, Lou Angelo ; production designer, Gregory Wm. Bolton ; music score, Patrick O'Hearn. D.B. Sweeney, Michael Warren, Richard Jordan, Victor Love, Janet Julian, Hakeem Olajuwon, Bo Kimble. DVD.
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Summary: | On Chicago's South Side, too many kids get their one shot at life at the wrong end of a gun. Byron Harper is determined to change that with basketball. His hottest player, Truth, has a chance to turn pro, but first Harper has to tackle two major obstacles: Truth's drug problem and his ambitious crooked, sports agent.
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