by Jeremy Wheeler
synopsis
Tim Story directs this sports drama based on real events, with Forest Whitaker starring as Al Collins, a high-school basketball coach who leads a ragtag team to the state finals just a year after the Katrina disaster in this Weinstein Co. production. Robert Eisele (The Great Debaters) provides the screenplay.
characteristics
- Hurricane
- Underdogs
- High-school
- Forces Of Nature
- Coach
- Basketball
