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  • Hoop Dreams
  • Hoop Dreams review by SAI81 from Tonbridge, Kent
    Rated - 5.0 stars Hoop Dreams 25 March 2007
    ...ll as their successes both on and off court. From 300 hours of footage Director Steve James has carved out a riveting three hour film. He's very fortunate with his subject...   Read customer review

Steve James - filmography


  • The Interrupters on DVD (2011)
    Director: Steve James
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. From acclaimed director Steve James and best-selling author Alex Kotlowitz, this film is an unusually intimate journey into the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 65% from 363 members
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  • Joe And Max on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Leonard Roberts,  Til Schweiger,  Peta Wilson
    Director: Steve James
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    American boxer Joe Louis (Leonard Roberts) meets German champion Max Schmeling (Til Schweiger) in the ring in 1936, and Schmeling emerges victorious. They fight in the ring once again in 1938, and Louis hospitaliSes his German counterpart. Schmeling, a member of the Nazi party, survives WWII, hears ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 353 members
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  • Prefontaine (1997)
    Starring: Jared Leto,  R. Lee Ermey,  Ed O'Neill
    Director: Steve James
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The true story of Olympic runner Steve Prefontaine who had an extraordinary talent for running despite being born with one leg shorter than the other.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 43 members
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  • Hoop Dreams on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Frederick Marx,  Peter Gilbert,  Arthur Agee
    Director: Steve James
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    This completely absorbing three-hour documentary follows the lives of two inner-city African American teenage basketball prodigies as they move through high school with long-shot dreams of the NBA, superstardom and an escape from the ghetto. Taking cues from such works as Michael Apted's 35 Up, ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 1,155 member
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  • I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)
    Starring: Keenen Ivory Wayans,  Bernie Casey,  Antonio Fargas
    Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This "Blaxploitation" spoof sees a tough team of heroes set out to get Mr. Big, the man responsible for a friend's "OG" (over-gold) from wearing too many chains. Features cameos from such icons of black cinema as Isaac Hayes, Jim Brown and Antonio 'Huggy Bear' Fargas.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 831 members
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  • Hero And The Terror on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Chuck Norris,  Brynn Thayer,  Jack O'Halloran
    Director: William Tannen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Chuck Norris stars as Detective Danny O'Brien who, three years ago, captured Simon Moon, a psychotic killer. But Moon is always on the loose in O'Brien's nightmares, where the desperate struggle never ends. Then, suddenly, Moon does break free from the Asylum...
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 361 members
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  • Johnny Be Good on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Anthony Michael Hall,  Robert Downey Jr.,  Paul Gleason
    Director: Bud Smith
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Johnny Walker is one of America's hottest young footballers, but he has a dilemma: should he take up one of the many offers from various college scouts, or should he go to college with his girlfriend and give up his football dream?
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 249 members
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  • Brother From Another Planet (1984)
    Starring: Jane Halleran,  Joe Morton,  Darryl Edwards
    Director: John Sayles
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this offbeat fantasy tale, Sayles takes a look through the eyes of a black extraterrestrial (Joe Morton) who crash-lands on Earth - in Harlem - and is taken in by the regulars of a local bar. The alien changes everyone he meets on his journey through the streets of Urban America. But can his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 107 members
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  • Lianna (1983)
    Starring: Linda Griffiths,  Jane Hallaren,  Jon DeVries
    Director: John Sayles
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this moving and compassionate film, Sayles presents a sympathetic, realistic portrait of Lianna, a young wife and mother who leaves her husband for another woman and embarks on a turbulent journey of self-discovery. Lianna must face the anger and confusion of her husband as well as the raised ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 106 members
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  • Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980)
    Starring: Bruce MacDonald,  Maggie Renzi,  Adam LeFevre
    Director: John Sayles
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this his directoria debut, John Sayles looks at seven friends who reunite ten years after their radical college days for a dramatic, poignant and revelatory weekend. Return of the Secaucus 7 inspired the later hit film The Big Chill and heralded the arrival of a brilliant new force in ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 103 members
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  • Steve James - Blues/Roots Guitar
    Starring: Steve James
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    A tutorial from the Delta to Chicago styles and beyond. Beginning with a simple 8-bar sequence, learn how to add simple slides, hammer-ons, bass notes and vamps with examples from the styles of Mance Lipscomb, Scrapper Blackwell and Robert Johnson. Explore Open tuning Blues as well as open-G tuning,..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 23 members
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  • Steve James - Learn To Play Blues Mandol...
    Starring: Steve James
    Director: none
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Steve James brings learning mandolinists more of the funky, old-time songs that made his previous instructional DVD on this instrument so popular. He covers blues scales, chord patterns, walking lines, arpeggios, accompaniments and great tunes, including Jackson Stomp, Prater Blues, Corrina,Corrina,..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 25% from 2 members
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  • John Sayles Collection (3 discs)
    Starring: Jane Halleran,  Darryl Edwards,  David Strathairn
    Director: John Sayles
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This boxset brings together three early films from John Sayles, one of the foremost American Independent directors working today. Never before available in the UK, these films are characterised by their nuanced observations, humanity and irrepressible sense of independence, forming the foundations ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 306 members
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Steve James facts

5 most recent films

The Interrupters - 3.0 stars
Joe And Max - 2.5 stars
Prefontaine - 3.0 stars
Hoop Dreams - 4.0 stars
McBain - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Hoop Dreams - 4.0 stars
Brother From Another Planet - 3.5 stars
Return of the Secaucus Seven - 3.5 stars
The Interrupters - 3.0 stars
American Ninja Collection - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Steve James - Learn To Play Blues Mandolin Vol.2 - 1.5 stars
Steve James - Learn To Play Blues Mandolin Vol.1 - 2.5 stars
Steve James - Blues/Roots Guitar - 3.0 stars
Prefontaine - 3.0 stars
Johnny Be Good - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Jane Halleran - 4 times - show films
Darryl Edwards - 4 times - show films
Linda Griffiths - 4 times - show films
David Strathairn - 4 times - show films
Joe Morton - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

James Glickenhaus - 4 times - show films
John Sayles - 4 times - show films
Gideon Amir - 2 times - show films
Sam Firstenberg - 2 times - show films
none - 2 times - show films