Above the Rim Page #7

Synopsis: Story of Kyle-Lee Watson, a promising high school basketball star, and his relationships with Birdie, a powerful drug dealer, and Birdie's brother, Thomas 'Shep' Sheppard, himself once a promising high school star at Kyle's school, now employed as a security guard.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Director(s): Jeff Pollack
Production: New Line Home Entertainment
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
53%
R
Year:
1994
96 min
989 Views


He's all right, folks.

Here we go.

Don't worry about it! Come on!

What's that?

What's the f*** is that?

Take him out of the game!

You got to be kidding me.

This here's a man's game.

Good no-call, ref!

Motaw, come on!

Don't lose this for me!

Let's go!

Let's go!

Hell, yeah!

God f***in' damn!

Goddamn!

All Motaw has to do

is hang on to that ball,

and the Birdmen will hang

on to that championship!

Let's go! Put it back!

Keep out of his butt!

Run, you sucker!

Don't lose that f***in' ball!

Don't lose this sh*t!

Go, boy, go!

Straighten these motherfuckers out.

Handle your business!

Freeze, police!

Welcome back once again

to Landover, Maryland.

The Hoyas of Georgetown

down by a couple to Seton Hall

in the conference championship game.

Only nine seconds remaining now.

Let's explore the options

for head coach John Thompson.

He can take it down low,

a high-percentage play.

Maybe he'll get to the free-throw line

and send it into overtime.

But Kyle Watson's had the hot hand

for the second half.

Will he go to Watson

and bomb away for the outside?

Nine seconds left.

Watson the lead guard for the Hoyas.

Who will be the man to get it?

Watson with the ball.

Gives it up. They better hurry.

Better make a decision.

They find Watson on the wing.

Three for three! Yes!

Georgetown does it!

Watson coming through!

A conference championship

for the Georgetown Hoyas.

Another for John Thompson.

And mayhem in Landover.

And with good reason.

The play worked to perfection.

The pick and the low block.

Watson coming around,

finding the necessary spacing,

and look at the rotation.

The perfect form on the 3-point play.

Downstairs, he comes free

and finds that necessary spacing.

What a great deal of momentum now

for John Thompson's Georgetown Hoyas

as they get ready for the Big Dance,

the NCAA Tournament.

Watson asked for the ball.

He got it.

Now he's downstairs with our Bill Raff.

- Got to feel pretty good, huh, Kyle?

- Great!

What were you thinking of

when you made that shot?

Just thinking about spreading my fingers

and popping my wrist.

You didn't want to go back

into that huddle.

No. He's a big man.

Kept you scared. All right, Kyle.

Congratulations.

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Barry Michael Cooper

Barry Michael Cooper is an American writer, producer and director best known for his work on the films New Jack City, Above the Rim and Sugar Hill.Cooper's writing career began when he penned the 1987 Village Voice article, Teddy Riley's New Jack Swing. This brought him to the attention producer Quincy Jones who hired him to rewrite a screenplay which later became the basis of New Jack City. more…

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