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Lenny Cooke
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In this quintessentially American documentary, filmmaking brothers Joshua and Benny Safdie track the unfulfilled destiny of Lenny Cooke, who was the number-one ranked high school basketball player in America in 2001 but ends up going undrafted, and becomes a journeyman playing in little-known leagues across the world now.
In this quintessentially American documentary, filmmaking brothers Joshua and Benny Safdie track the unfulfilled destiny of Lenny Cooke, who was the number-one ranked high school basketball player in America in 2001 but ends up going undrafted, and becomes a journeyman playing in little-known leagues across the world now.
Actors:
Jarrett Jack,
Harvey Araton,
LeBron James,
Amare Stoudemire,
Elton Brand,
Kobe Bryant,
Ming Yao,
David Stern,
Mike Fratello,
Tyson Chandler,
Lenny Cooke,
...»
Jarrett Jack
October 28, 1983 in Fort Washington, Maryland, USA
Harvey Araton
LeBron James
30 December 1984, Akron, Ohio, USA
Amare Stoudemire
16 November 1982, Lake Wales, Florida, USA
Elton Brand
11 March 1979, Cortland, New York, USA
Kobe Bryant
23 August 1978, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Ming Yao
12 September 1980, Shanghai, China
David Stern
22 September 1942, New York City, New York, USA
Mike Fratello
24 February 1947, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA
Tyson Chandler
October 2, 1982 in Hanford, California, USA
Lenny Cooke
Genre:
Drama, Biography, Documentary
Director:
Joshua Safdie ,
Ben Safdie
Joshua Safdie
3 April 1984, New York City, New York, USA
Ben Safdie
Country:
United States
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December 15, 2013
Lazy, fly-on-the-wall filmmaking. The Safdie brothers have the benefit of some rare extant footage, but absolutely no idea how to shape it into an interesting narrative.
December 12, 2013
A compellingly unconventional, elliptical sports documentary that explores the mysterious realm of might-have-been.
December 03, 2013
How could a top prospect drop off the map within a year? That's the cautionary tale spun by Lenny Cooke, a troubling, artfully constructed documentary.
December 05, 2013
The question of why Cooke's career never materialized hangs over the movie, but is never answered. What emerges instead is a portrait of a talented teenager being readied ... for a future that doesn't arrive.
December 30, 2013
It's clear enough that even if his turns into a cautionary tale, his is also the story shared by many more kids than LeBron's.
June 10, 2016
The film's informed voyeuristic style ... allows Cooke's actions to speak louder than any words the often soft spoken protagonist might have shed on his life.
December 19, 2013
Filmmakers Benny and Josh Safdie use real-time footage to follow this hopeful, affable young man as he becomes a bitter has-been over the course of a decade.
December 05, 2013
It's a small film, but as a cautionary tale? Swish!
December 30, 2013
That the first half of the film is largely older footage (previously shot for an earlier project by Adam Shopkorn) endows it with wistfulness. No matter how merry the events, they're obviously distant fragments of a broken dream.
December 05, 2013
Like a dismaying coming-of-age movie in which little is learned beyond the fickle chemistry between dreams and business.
April 22, 2016
The Safdies have done remarkably well in resurrecting an old project, which although lacking in production value, simply needed to be seen by the world.
December 05, 2013
It's a spirited experiment in documentary form, with the directors showing great imagination in their fusion of new and archival footage, and their portrait of Cooke, assembled largely from offhand moments, conveying a sharp dramatic sensibility.