Genre: Documentary
Tagline: You only get one shot.
Plot: Since the age of 9, Sebastian Telfair has been one of the best-known basketball players on the streets of New York. At the start of his senior year at Lincoln High School, while his friend LeBron James is making history with a $90 million sneaker deal and NBA contract straight out of high school, Sebastian calls a press conference to announce his decision to attend college at the end of the year.But 18 years of poverty in the public housing projects of Coney Island have created a hunger in Sebastian. When two young men are gunned down in the hallway right outside his apartment, Sebastian begins to feel that he wants to get his family out as soon as possible and that – if he can – he might try to make the jump right from high school to the pros. Five years earlier, Sebastian’s older brother, Jamel Thomas, was a basketball star at Providence College, expecting to be drafted into the NBA and get the family out of the projects himself. But no NBA team picked him and he and the family were devastated. Their mother, Erica, was heartbroken and Jamel was forced to go overseas to play in obscurity. Now it is up to Sebastian to set things right for their mother, for Jamel and for his eight other brothers and sisters. Under pressure that builds with every game, Sebastian continues
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| Cast |
Jay-Z
State Property, Fade to Black, Beef |
 | Derek Jeter
Nine Innings from Ground Zero, Faith Rewarded: The Historic Season of the 2004 Boston Red Sox, 2004 MLB All-Star Game |
 | Spike Lee
Malcolm X, Do the Right Thing, Summer of Sam |
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| Music By |
| Duncan Sheik
A Home at the End of the World, Brother's Shadow, BitterSweet |
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