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Name: Above The Rim
Released: 1994-3-23
Cast: Duane Martin, León, Tupac Shakur, Bernie Mac, Tonya Pinkins

Above The Rim

R
1h 33m
1994

52%

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In New York City, where thousands of teenagers compete for a very few chances to play professional basketball--and the fame and money that come with them--one talented young man must choose between a scholarship to college and immediate wealth in this drama set on the urban asphalt basketball courts of Harlem.

Director:

Jeff Pollack

Producer:

Jeff Pollack, Benny Medina, James D. Brubaker

Writer:

Barry Michael Cooper, Benny Medina

Cast:

Duane Martin, León, Tupac Shakur, Bernie Mac, Tonya Pinkins, David Bailey, Marlon Wayans, Michael Rispoli

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

52%

Reviews

Common Sense Media

JK Sooja

Gun violence, language in solid '90s basketball drama.

Films with principally African-American casts shouldn't have to mean hats cocked sideways, baggy jeans around the knees, slithery drug dealers and voiceless women. Not even in service of a fast break. Or buck.

It ain't got game.

Variety