LeBron James Documentary More Than a Game Trailer
Documentaries about established sports stars can often come off as promotional puff pieces rather than anything truly deep or profound, but Kristopher Belman’s More Than a Game seems a little bit different. It attracted a lot of attention at the Toronto Film Festival last year because one of the subjects of the film, LeBron James, is now a bona fide NBA superstar. The interesting thing is that this movie was shot during his days playing high school basketball for St. Vincent-St. Mary.
The movie focuses not only on LeBron but also his teammates, a core group of friends who have known each other since elementary school. As his own fame starts to grow and all the NBA buzz builds, it creates conflict within the team as they vie for the national championship. Although there have been a ton of great basketball documentaries over the years, this looks like another fine entry into the ranks. More Than a Game will be released in select theatres by Lionsgate on October 2nd. Check out the trailer below or watch it HD over at Yahoo!.
Comments (4)
got to love the American Catholic high school system that allowed these boys and the school to engineer a championship – basically recruit, pay scholarships just like college
Posted by rus in chicago on April 21st, 2009I saw this at the film festival. It was awesome. 5 young African Americans got an education. 1 is an NBA superstar. Two play in Europe and the other two earned their college degrees and work in their field.
They weren’t paid anything to go these schools. They were recruited to good schools in good neighbourhoods that got them away from drugs.
Have you seen the movie?
Posted by Greg on April 21st, 2009I’m not down on it, I just have a personal history with it because while playing high school football one of the catholic high schools stole are best players!
Posted by rus in chicago on April 21st, 2009Those shoes are hideous.
Posted by Shut-Up Ed on April 21st, 2009Leave a Reply