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Summary
From a basketball academy in Senegal, to the high-pressure world of American prep schools, the film documents the extraordinary personal journeys of four particularly tall West African Muslim teenage boys with NBA dreams.
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Critics vs audiences
Critics and audiences agree
Critics 67Audiences 69GoodWatch 56
Metascore67
IMDb6.9
Running time
1 h 21 min
Shorter than most documentaries, −15 min on the typical 96
typical 9681Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 2 countries
Released
2011
October 21, 2011
15 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Also spoken
FrenchWolofMade in
- United States
Directing · 1
- Anne Buford Director, Producer
Production · 2
- Chiemi Karasawa Producer
- Mark Becker Producer
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