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Above the Rim (1994) -- Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with his two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.

Overview

User Rating:
5.9/10   3,330 votes
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Director:
Jeff Pollack
Writers (WGA):
Jeff Pollack (story) &
Benny Medina (story) ...
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Release Date:
23 March 1994 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama | Sport more
Tagline:
The Hardest Part Of Winning Is Choosing Sides. more
Plot:
Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with his two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
User Comments:
brilliant! more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Duane Martin ... Kyle Lee Watson
Leon ... Shep

Tupac Shakur ... Birdie
David Bailey ... Rollins
Tonya Pinkins ... Mailika

Marlon Wayans ... Bugaloo

Bernie Mac ... Flip
Byron Minns ... Monroe
Wood Harris ... Motaw (as Sherwin David Harris)
Shawn Michael Howard ... Bobby

Henry Simmons ... Starnes
Iris Little Thomas ... Waitress
Michael Rispoli ... Richie
Eric Nies ... Montrose
Bill Rafferty ... Himself (as Bill Raftery)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
96 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
USA:R (Certificate #32601) | Australia:MA | Germany:12 | Iceland:14 (original rating) | Iceland:16 (video rating) | UK:15
Filming Locations:
New York City, New York, USA

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
At the start when Shep awakes from the nightmare, you hear the intro to Tupac Shakur's "Pain" - "I Couldn't help but notice your pain" - "My pain?" - "It runs deep, share it with me!". This voice-over is from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989). more
Goofs:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Kyle is cheering in slow motion at the end of the movie, while "regulators" was playing, you clearing see Kyle accidentally hit heads with another one of the players more
Quotes:
Kyle-Lee: Why are you doin this man? It's just a game.
Shep: Not to me.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Be Kind Rewind (2008) more
Soundtrack:
(So Far) The Ghetto Been Good to Me more

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3 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
brilliant!, 29 October 2002
Author: djlatino69 from Quebec,Canada

this was one of tupac's best movie ever.The story line was great and so was his peformence.I enjoy basketball and for those of you who are a huge fan of the sport or watching ghetto movies.Go to the video store and rent,you will like this movie so much that you would want to see it over and over again.

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Kyle was such a selfish, loudmouth idiot. adamaf34
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