Once you get past the basketball details if youre not a sports person, that is, you will find an amazing, interesting, and absorbing story of a boy who is working hard at the only chance hes got to beat the odds. Ball dont lie theatrical teaser based on the novel of the same name, ball dont lie takes it to the streets for an urban basketball c. Ball dont lie plays out over one day in the life of sticky, a skinny 17 yearold high school junior and basketball prodigy from venice, california. A phrase commonly used by professional basketball player rasheed wallace. He has a passion for basketball, and he is so gooood. The only difference is sticky never had a place to call his own, and living with different foster parents every year had no benefit. Sticky, 17, white, has spent his life being abused by pimps living with his prostitute mother, bouncing from one foster home to another, and living on the street between failed placements. He critiques existing popular myths concerning the history of basketball, contextualizes them, and presents an alternative history of the sport inspired by innovations. Ball dont lie theatrical teaser video movie insider. I dont know about you, but im hyped to check it out i spoke with the production company and they are still in the process of finding the right distributor, so the release date is. Dec 05, 2012 rasheed wallaces ball dont lie catchphrase suggests that the ball is the ultimate arbiter of oncourt justice, but recently those words have mostly meant punishment for him. The bulletin sticky is a beataroundthehead foster kid with nowhere to call home but the street, and an outer shell so tough that no one will take him in.
A scholar of comparative literature at the university of michigan, colas defines the white basketball unconscious as a hypothetical container constituted by its contents. Dec 02, 2012 rasheed wallace gets called for a technical foul after fouling luis scola, and earns yet another and the ejection after shouting ball don t lie. Would be cool to see it be released online if they cant find. Video archive for the film ball dont lie, which has a domestic theatrical release in the year of 2009.
Grayson the professor boucher born june 10, 1984 is an american streetball player and actor. Hill brilliantly weaves the narrative through a series of flashbacks that reveal the many layers of stickys troubled childhood. Ball dont lie plays out over one day in the life of sticky, a skinny 17yearold high school junior and basketball prodigy from venice, california. Though travis reichard is the protagonists given name, his moniker is sticky. With rosanna arquette, grayson boucher, ludacris, nick cannon. Ball don t lie is said when a player misses one, two or all three of his free throws after a questionable read as. Pagina ufficiale del torneo di basket ball dont lie latina. Your typical young adult book is going to generally have a set of young characters, some element of romance, and your stereotypical coming of age story where the main protagonist grows and develops as a character.
Firstly, the film adaptation is coming out, and i wanted to see what the source material was. The film premiered at the 2008 tribeca film festival. Grayson boucher aka the professors upcoming movie in spring 2007. Sticky, 17, white, has spent his life being abused by pimps living with his prostitute mother, bouncing from one foster home to another, and living on the street between failed. The book is a gritty comingofage story of a troubled throwaway named sticky his real name. He dont talk much, but lets his mad balling skills do the talking. Ball dont lie, whos gracytracy, jenna marblesstoolala, blogger salaries think thats a dumb question anyone but people ask it all the time, and im sure theres more questions. To sticky life was basketball, and his girlfriend anhthu. A teenager grayson boucher uses basketball to overcome his. Sep 27, 2005 ball don t lie has these to ball don t lie is something of an oddity among books specific to the young adult genre. Its the only place that feels like home and where his skills give him some street cred. Filme online the professor 2019 ganzer film stream. Myth, genealogy, and invention in the cultures of basketball, yago colas introduces and explores this concept.
He is most known for playing on the highly stylized, international and1 mixtape tour. Tickets for this movie are not available at this moment. Ball dont lie is a 2008 film directed by brin hill. What happened to the movie ball dont lie starring the professor. Joss whedons supernatural romance in your eyes now available online.
Ball dont lie staff ball dont lie october 29, 2012, 9. Based on the novel of the same name, ball dont lie takes it to the streets for an urban basketball comingofage drama. Ostensibly situated as a digital paean to socal street sports, ball dont lie is less a movie than a sadomasochistic plot party where every. Regarder le film ball dont lie 2008 en streaming vf. A skinny high school junior and basketball prodigy from venice, california burdened with early life tragedy callous foster care and obsessivecompulsive disorder, sticky manages to surpass his limits whenever he has a ball in his hands. Shuffled from one foster home to another after his mothers suicide, stick fits with the rough camaraderie of the other hoopsters, even if some are homeless. Ball dont lie is said when a player misses one, two or all three of his free throws after a questionable read as. The professor, chris ludacris bridges, nick cannon, and rosanna arquette. Movie ball dont lie 2008 is like 8mile meets the and1 tour. Once he steps onto the scuffed boards of lincoln rec with his boys and a ball, the world disappears. Rasheed wallace gets called for a technical foul after fouling luis scola, and earns yet another and the ejection after shouting ball dont lie. Ball dont lie 2008 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Ball dont lie plays out over one day in the life of sticky boucher. There is currently one video available for the film, of which one and only one is a trailer, as listed below.
With the electricity, humor and sweat of street basketball, ball dont lie is the comingofage story of sticky newcomer grayson boucher, a skinny 17yearold high school. A talented but deeply troubled high school basketball star must make a difficult choice that will alter the course of his entire life. People say a skinny white dude cant ball, but sticky dont pay them no mind. Stickys dreams of playing college ball and making it into the nba are threatened on the day he makes the worst decision of his life. There, it isnt about his dead mother, his shoplifting habit, or even his girlfriend. Sticky is a young teenager trying to find his way and make sense of a world where he feels alone. It means the ball doesnt lie, but the grammar makes it sound streettough and worldwise. Hes spent years perfecting his shots and, despite setbacks in his personal life, basketball has always been there for him. Everything you need to know about ball dont lie movie 2009. Ball dont lie 2009 a teenager grayson boucher uses basketball to overcome his emotional scars and obsessivecompulsive personality disorder. Ball dont lie is now in the process of being turned into a feature film. With the electricity, humor and sweat of street basketball, ball dont lie is the comingofage story of sticky newcomer grayson boucher. Ball dont lie has these to ball dont lie is something of an oddity among books specific to the young adult genre. Before he retired, he left behind this exemplum of the phrases use.
The film s writer brin hill last wrote battle of the year and wont back down. Hes 6 3 tall, with a handsome chiseled and tan face and a few zig zag scars, and his home is the street. The bulletinsticky is a beataroundthehead foster kid with nowhere to call home but the street, and an outer shell so tough that no one will take him in. Le dernier mot, regarder ball dont lie film complet gratuitement et vous devez essayer douvrir notre collection a choisir film les plus commentes. Seventeenyearold sticky has been shuffled to different foster homes and living on the streets since his mothers death.
He suffers from obsessivecompulsive disorder, which embarrasses him, so he just cant help doing certain things over and over until they feel right. Imdb has it listed as a 2008 release, almost a decade has gone by and the movie is still under wraps. The protagonist sticky is a boy from the slums of california who spent a large portion of his life in an orphanage. Its an americanism, possibly aave derived, with the word dont taking on a generic do role, much as aint takes on a generic is role in rural speech.
The film s director brin hill last directed in your eyes. There is currently one video available for the film, of which one and only one is. Ball dont lie faculty book excerpt gotham writers workshop. The ball is, essentially, the unbiased judge who will not reward the player by going in if the apparent foul was. He cleverly sets up each chapter with a myth and then he goes about deconstructing it from a variety of angles. A look at the ball dont lie behindthescenes crew and production team. Voir ball dont lie 2008 en streaming complet hd, parmi ligne gratuit en qualite hd pourrait bravissimo etre cette moyen a surveiller cela weekend. It stars and1 mixtape team member grayson boucher, a. Retired basketball player rasheed wallace was the worlds foremost proponent of ball dont lie as a way of life. I dont know about you, but im hyped to check it out i spoke with the production company and they are still in the process of finding the right distributor, so the release date is still unknown. Ball don t lie plays out over one day in the life of sticky, a skinny 17yearold high school junior and basketball prodigy from venice, california.
In fact, youtube is filled with videos of wallace dropping ball dont lie during different stages of his professional career. Ball don t lie 2008 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. With ball dont lie, wallace keeps technicals flowing. Rasheed wallace keeps technicals flowing with ball dont lie. Had ball dont lie gone the straight linear route and changed the story so that our main character was actually working toward a concrete goal, perhaps the film wouldve shined.
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