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He was a little kid with big dreams. more
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Biography of pro basketball player "Pistol" Pete Maravich, who died suddenly in 1988 at age 40 from a heart attack. full summary | add synopsis
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An Early Look At 'Pistol Pete' more (14 total)

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Millie Perkins ... Helen Maravich
Nick Benedict ... Press Maravich
Adam Guier ... Pete Maravich
Murrell Garland ... Coach Pendleton
Tom Lester ... Pete as adult
Buddy Petrie ... Buddy Pendleton

Darrel Campbell ... Carl Connfield
Wendy Leblanc ... Sandy
John Richardson ... Moose
Rodney Stone
Eddie Hailey
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Anachronisms: A package of Marlboro "Light" cigarettes is clearly visible in the pocket of young Pete's father. That product would not be introduced for years. more
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Pete as adult: I remeber like it was yesterday, it was the beegining of an incredable journey, the year that would change my life forever and chart the course of my destiny.
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12 out of 12 people found the following comment useful.
An Early Look At 'Pistol Pete', 5 July 2006
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Author: ccthemovieman-1 from Lockport, NY, United States

This is about as clean a story as you could find: a nice story about the famous basketball player "Pistol" Pete Maravich in his earlier days. An incredible talent, Maravich went on to star at LSU and then in the professional NBA.

This particular story centers around young Maravich as an eighth-grader playing basketball for his high school team. The first half of the film was fascinating as actor Adam Guier was very credible exhibiting Maravich's tremendous ball-handling skills for a kid his age. There also is some nice photography in here.

The second half of the movie became a little too Hollywood-cliché ridden. I wish they had gone into Pete's college and pro career and ended with his conversion to Christianity before his untimely death. It could have been a very powerful movie instead of just a nice after-school-type TV film. (Just reading another review here, I am glad to learn some of that material is included in the DVD. My only look at this was on tape about a dozen years ago.)

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