This is a wonderful movie. Too bad that it was not managed properly. The story needed to be told and will be one of the greats as far as I am concerned. The acting is superb, it brings the devastation of Katrina into each American home like no news reports could. It is an injustice to consider this movie just another "out of the ashes" "feel good" story. During the time of Katrina I could not help but wonder why we Americans had allowed the Patriot Act and Homeland Security to start taking over our lives, when mother nature is a much more formidable force than any terrorist acts. This movie made me think about how great people are when they have the resolve to do the extraordinary because of rather than despite insurmountable odds.

This was a great movie, but being born and raised in Marrero,La. (still living here), and also attending John Ehret High School, the "Facts" in this movie is very misleading. It is true with the players from 5 different schools coming together to win it all. But, the reason why they all got together at John Ehret is because it was one of the few schools opened at the time. For instance, in the scene where the coach goes to the gym after Katrina, and it is destroyed and full of water, that is no where near the truth. John Ehret had ZERO damage from the storm, in fact the entire west bank had some wind damage to houses, but NONE of the area flooded at all. Also, this movie was filmed at a vacant school in Chalmette, La. and though the makers made an attempt to make it look like Ehret, it is no where close. All in All, I enjoyed the movie, but that is all it is, movie.

I thought this would be a cheap movie given that it Lil Wayne and Bow Wow in the movie but boy was I surprised. Hurricane Season is a great story of triumph in the face of tremendous adversity. It puts you in New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina. It showed how people's lives were turned upside down. The life and history of a town swept away in just a few moments. In one of the darker times of our nation's history it illustrates what makes the human spirit so powerful. And how a group of misfits can become brothers and form a collective bond that can accomplish anything. As someone who has watched every sports movie known to man, I dare say this movie is a better basketball movie then Coach Carter. And is easily right up there in inspiration with Rudy. I love how the movie showed such a powerful resiliency from such young men. Move over Remember The Titans, Hurricane Season is ready to take you by storm.

Based on true events amid the wreckage and chaos dealt by Hurricane Katrina; one basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana just will not give up. Coach Al Collins(Forest Whitaker), gathers other players from hard-hit schools and builds a team actually worthy enough to go to the state playoffs. A very honest look at what can be done with the right people having the desire and fortitude to pick up and start over again. Just getting the players, that under normal circumstances would be rivals, to mesh together into a solid playing unit was no easy task. Along with stars like Isaiah Washington, Courtney B. Vance, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Gaston and Taraji P Henson is rapper Lil' Wayne and singer Bow Wow. Many heroes have surfaced from the bowels of Katrina's wrath...some just happened to belong on a basketball court. HURRICANE SEASON is well worth your time.