Hoop Dreams is quite a refreshing documentary about what basketball means to black kids in the USA. The narrative centres around two boys in the Chicago suburbs, who aspire to be NBA players one day. The documentary was originally intended to be a 30-minute TV feature, but the film-makers in the process of researching realized it had much greater potential. The end product which is ~3 hours in length spans more than 4 years of the kids' lives and what they manage to achieve at the end of it. This documentary is really the embodiment of dedication to film-making. As you watch the film, you can't help being amazed by the efforts the film-makers put in for this, and even more so after listening to their audio commentary. The documentary is part of Criterion Collection, and featured on more critics lists for 1994 than even Pulp Fiction. Well, comparing both these is not fair, but it just goes to show what a solid work this is.
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