More Than a Game (2008) on Netflix
PG20081h 45mDocumentarySport
Five boys from Akron, Ohio, play AAU basketball under coach Dru Joyce II. LeBron James, Dru Joyce III, Romeo Travis, Sian Cotton and Willie McGee grow from pre-teens into high school.
- Netflix3.9/5
- IMDb7.6/105,849 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes71%
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From their pre-teen years into high school, LeBron James, Dru Joyce III, Romeo Travis, Sian Cotton and Willie McGee play together on one AAU basketball team in Akron, Ohio. Dru Joyce II is their coach. The five come up through Ohio youth basketball as an unknown group and climb to the top of youth athletics, and James's fame grows with the team's rise.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about More Than a Game (2008)
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- The soundtrack drew a startling roster of names: songs from Ester Dean, Drake, T.I., Mary J. Blige, Jay-Z and Soulja Boy, plus additional vocals or raps from Chris Brown, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Eminem, Toni Braxton and Jordin Sparks.
- One soundtrack single put four rappers on the same track: "Forever" by Drake, featuring Kanye West, Lil Wayne and Eminem, was released as a single on September 15, 2009.
- "Stronger" by Mary J. Blige was the soundtrack's lead single, released on August 4, 2009 to support the film, and then put out again on August 21 as the second single from her ninth studio album, Stronger with Each Tear.
- The documentary made almost no mark in cinemas, opening with $182,943 in its first weekend and grossing $960,387 in total, of which $950,675 came from the United States and Canada.
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