Full Court Miracle Page #4

Synopsis: An African American college basketball star becomes the head coach of a yeshiva's struggling basketball team in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after a knee injury forces him to leave the game. Based on the true story of Lamont Carr.
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Director(s): Stuart Gillard
Production: Daniel L. Paulson Productions
  4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.9
TV-G
Year:
2003
90 min
281 Views


Karma Will Help Me Sell

The Bender Condo.

Mojo.

Say What?

Karma Is So Out, Dear.

Mojo Is In.

I'm Impressed.

You Have To Stay On Top

Of These Things If You

Want To Be Hip.

You Know,

I Can't Seem To Find

The Espresso Machine.

Then I Guess

You'll Have Nojo.

[Telephone Rings]

[Whispering] Very Good.

Hello?

Oh, Mrs. Klein.

Yeah, Alex Is On Rounds

With Dr. Grimwald

This Morning.

Interesting.

Aw, Come On,

Move It Or Lose It.

I'm Thinking Lose It.

Dr. Schlotsky

Would Like To Have

A Word With You.

Am I In Trouble?

I Certainly Hope So.

Alex:
I Was Just Doing

What You Told Me To.

Rabbi Lewis:

Odd. I Don't Recall

Suggesting

That You Con Julie,

Lie To Your Parents,

And Hustle Strangers

For Money.

Well, Maybe Not Exactly.

Huh?

Ok, Maybe Not At All.

I Believe

We Were Talking

About Judah Maccabee.

Yeah. And If We

Wanted To Win,

We Would Need A Great

Leader Like Judah.

And Then Lamont Carr

Shows Up At Our Very Park.

It Was Like It Was

Meant To Be.

Now Mom Says We Can't

Be Coached By Some

Stranger Anymore.

Well, I Think Your

Mother Has A Point.

Yeah, But Doesn't

The Torah Say That

We Should Invite

The Stranger In And

Love Him As Ourselves,

Because We Were

Once Strangers

In The Land Of Egypt?

You're Absolutely Right.

That's Thinking.

Yes.

And That's Why I'm Going

To Invite Mr. Carr

To Join You And Your

Family At My House

For Shabbas Dinner.

[Praying In Hebrew]

Rabbi Lewis:
Go Ahead.

No, Eat, Eat.

Sarah Makes The Best

Gefilte Fish.

Here. Try It

With The Horseradish.

Horseradish? On Fish?

Yeah.

Uh, Salt And Pepper,

Please.

Outstanding, Mrs. Lewis.

Sarah, Please.

We're Not That

Formal.

Try My Chopped

Liver, Mr. Carr.

Lamont. And I Think I Will.

Here You Go.

Now, If I Could Only

Bother You For A Glass

Of Milk, I Would--

Appreciate It.

Um, We Don't Eat

Dairy After Meat.

Right.

It's The Whole Kosher

Thing. Never Did

Understand That.

It's One Of Our

Laws Called Chukkim.

For Which,

In Modern Times,

There's No Explanation.

At Least, Not One

That Could Be Understood

By Human Logic.

I Guess It's Like

My Mama Used To Say,

If You Understood

Everything God Did,

You'd Be God.

I Like That.

So, What Was Your Major

At Virginia?

Exercise Physiology.

Alex Says You're

A Natural Coach.

I Mean, The Is On Fire.

Yeah. Way Better Since

Lamont Started Coaching Us.

Of Course, They Started

So Bad,

They Only Had One Direction

To Go, Which Is Up.

Whether Or Not Mr. Carr

Is Qualified To Coach

Is Not The Issue.

Parents Are Concerned

That A Total Stranger

Is Tutoring

Their Children

At A Public Playground.

I Can Show Him Around.

I'll Introduce Him

To All The Parents.

The Point Is, Alex,

School Activities

Should Not Take Place

Out On The Street.

Your Mother's Right,

Alex.

She's Absolutely

Right.

And That's Why

I Propose

That You Do Your

Coaching At The Gym

In The Yeshiva.

Um...

You Do Know

I'm Not Jewish?

I Had Suspected That,

Yes.

But I Do Remember

The Commercial For

Feldman's Family Grocer.

So Come On Over

Even If

You're Not Kosher

So Come O--

Loved Feldman's.

Hated

The Commercial.

Still, It Made

A Good Point, Huh?

Perhaps You Also Don't

Have To Be Jewish

To Teach

At A Hebrew School.

This Is Such A Great

Opportunity.

Did You Know The Nba

Was Started By

Mostly Jewish Teams?

Yes. Basketball

Association Of America.

We Had The Original

Knicks...

The Philadelphia

Hebrew All-Stars.

They Were Good.

That Was A Team.

The Ball

Practically Never

Touched The Ground.

It Was Pass, Pass,

Pass--

Marshall.

It Was Like A Ballet,

With The Pass, Pass--

Marshall.

I Don't Think That

We Want To Pressure

Mr. Carr.

Oh, It's No Pressure.

I'm Not Pressuring.

Good.

I'm Not Pressuring.

Don't To It,

Then.

I'm Sorry To Interrupt,

But I'm Gonna Have

To Turn Down Your Offer.

I'm Not In Philly Looking

For A Coaching Job.

I'm Hoping To Get

Picked Up By The Sixers.

Aha. No, No,

There's A Solution.

We Keep This Temporary,

On A Day-To-Day Basis.

Certainly,

No One Can Have Any

Objections To That.

Mrs. Schlotsky:

I Can't Believe

You Agree With The Rabbi.

So Lamont Moves Practice

From The Park To School.

What's The Harm?

The Harm Is Alex Won't

Concentrate On School.

His Studies'll Go

Out The Window.

He'll Have Great

Ball-Bouncing Skills

And No Chance

At A Good University.

By The Time He Figures

Out What He Really Wants

To Do With His Life,

It'll Be Too Late.

When Did You Know You

Wanted To Be A Doctor?

When I Was 10.

And Your Dream

Came True.

Why Don't You Want

The Same Thing For Alex?

It's Not The Same Thing,

Marshall.

Alex Is Never Gonna Be

A Professional Basketball

Player, And You Know It.

No. I Don't Know It.

I Suspect It,

But I Don't Know It.

I Think We Should

Give The Rabbi's Plan

A Chance.

Hey.

Who's That?

I Feel Like A Gefilte

Fish Out Of Water.

Relax, Man. Everybody's

Gonna Love You Here.

Students Who Bounce

A Basketball In The Hall

Get It Confiscated,

Mr. Carr.

I Expect No Less

Of You.

Yes, Ma'am.

Everybody's Gonna

Love Me, Huh?

Oh, Ho Ho. Bless You.

Bless You.

You Da Mensch.

The What?

Who Was That?

That Was Mr. Simowitz.

Thanks To You, He Doesn't

Have To Coach Us Anymore.

Well, He Looks

A Little Too Happy.

[Whistle Blows]

There You Go, T.J.

Swing It Back.

Bring It Back Out.

Bring It Back Out.

There You Go.

There You Go.

Set The Pick.

Go Left.

Dish Off, Schlots,

You're The Rock.

Yeah.

[Blows Whistle]

Schlots, You Have

4 Other People

On Your Team.

Why Are You The Only

One Shooting?

Pass The Ball.

Or Do You Know

How To Pass?

Sorry, Coach.

Sorry?

Let's Run It Again.

Come On. Let's Go.

Alex:
All Right, Here We Go.

[Whistle Blows]

Come On, I Want You

To Swing The Ball.

[Blows Whistle]

Inbound The Ball.

There You Go.

There You Go.

Run Down, Stick.

Now, Go, Go, Go, Go.

Set Up The Offense.

Set Up The Offense.

There You Go.

Pass. Pass It.

There You Go.

There You Go, T.J.

There You Go.

Pass It In,

Pass It In.

Give It To Schlots.

There You Go.

Hold It Up.

Remarkable.

There You Go.

Remarkable

Improvement.

Might Not Recognize

Which Sport They're

Playing.

Long Way To Go Yet.

Ben, Call For The Ball.

Get More Active.

All Right, All Right.

They Still

Don't Believe.

You Gotta Believe

If You're Gonna Win.

Drive Left.

I'm Sorry?

The Ancient Maccabees

Were Hopelessly

Outnumbered.

A Massive Enemy Army

Against Them,

So They Had To Devise

A Strategy To Exploit

The Enemy's Weakness.

So They Retreated Right

Into The Hills Of Judea,

They Carved Tunnels

Into The Rock,

But They Made All

The Turns To The Right.

So, When The Enemy

Came In After Them...

The Enemy Had To Attack

With Their Left Hand,

His Weakness.

Leaving The Homeboys

To Defend With Their

Right Hand.

You'd Make A Good

Rabbinical Student.

And You'd Make A Good

Assistant Coach.

[Whistle Blows]

Hold The Ball,

Hold The Ball.

Listen Up, Guys.

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