I though this would be the typical sports movie with excitement and a talent story (we tend to enjoy those). But it's a B movie or a TV film movie. It's very predictable from the beginning. The acting is very bad. The filming is bad. There is just no story to tell. Don't waste your time.

Anthony (Taylor John Smith) attends St. Anthony's diverse school in NYC. He is the star of the basketball team and is looking at attending Cornell. His father is a college professor (Michael Shannon) with minor alcohol and major gambling issues which weighs on Anthony's tuition, etc. Anthony's problems compound as the film goes on until it gets to the point he has to step up and go above and beyond.This is a high school basketball drama. The film uses the N-word in a less than racist, and causal manner, that does not go unnoticed and corrected. I thought Taylor John Smith was less compelling in his star role than his support cast. Michael Shannon provided us with a complex antagonist, a role that sometimes take center court and front of the DVD cover.Guide: F-word. Implied sex. No nudity.

I could never understand how a parent would do harm to his own child to pay for his gambling debts. I've read in Chinese history that the adult parents were so hungry during the famine, so they exchanged their children with each other or one another to eat them, they could not eat their own children so they exchange theirs with others' kids to make them easier to kill. When a new lion got rid of the old dominant lion and became the leader, he usually would try every possible way and opportunity to kill the pubs not from him. (*Partially spoiler)In this film, we encountered a father who purposely hurt his son, a promising high school basketball star, and betting his son's team to lose in order to win a lot of money to pay for his gambling debts. This is the first time I witnessed such lowest parenthood in a movie making it quite memorable. There's one other thing that bother me a lot from this film: Almost all the white boys got black girl friends which again inevitably made me think that movie industry in America purposely try their best to brain wash the viewers to promote the 'Melting Pot' crap.

**May Contain Spoilers*The cinematography is to die for and the Re-Mark-Table score (pun intended) is worthy of its own release, but what makes this movie great is its anarchic progression of individual scenes rather than a total piece. The animal husbandry scenes are at once enormously conservative and transgressive. The transgender lava-lamp scene . I think Michael Shannon really killed that deer-IDK. What I do know is that every 14 minutes is something new and exciting worthy of the Sicilian Scene. Whether the bicycle pump is alive or not, I don't kare (two puns in one sitting). A regressive costume drama into American paternity, a master- class in optometry, and a riveting wolf documentary. Best picture of the decade.