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Ball Don't Lie

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A teenager (Grayson Boucher) uses basketball to overcome his emotional scars and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.

Critics Reviews

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Joseph Jon Lanthier Slant Magazine 06/01/2009
1/4
Less a movie than a sadomasochistic plot party where every conceivable contrivance of teenage woe is asphyxiated to the brink of orgasm and then abandoned to gasp for air and soothe its throbbing vitals. Go to Full Review Ronnie Scheib Variety 10/18/2008
Handcuffed to a story with no internal development and without the stylistic rigor to transform its jerky stop-and-start rhythm into an aesthetic, pic jumps from one disconnected scene to another. Go to Full Review John P. McCarthy Boxoffice Magazine 10/09/2009
2.5/5
Ball Don't Lie has what you might call an excess of street cred. Go to Full Review Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com 03/19/2009
B
Kim Hidalgo gives a notable performance as Sticky's girlfriend Anh-thu, but it's Boucher's slow-burn intensity and unmistakable basketball skills that drive this entertaining independent drama. Go to Full Review Erik Davis Cinematical 05/01/2008
Had Ball Don't 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 would've shined. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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03/21/2020 no la e visto la estoy buscando desde ase tiempo y no la consigo me gustaria verla soy fanatico de de los actores del profesor grayson bouher me darian el lin de la pelicula si se puede gracias See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Brin Hill

Director

Rosanna Arquette

Francine

Grayson Boucher

Sticky

Ludacris

Julius

Nick Cannon

Mico

Cody Anthony

Dave

Movie Info

Synopsis A teenager (Grayson Boucher) uses basketball to overcome his emotional scars and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.
Director
Brin Hill
Producer
Brin Hill, Michael Roiff, Jeffrey Smith
Screenwriter
Brin Hill, Matt De la Peña
Production Co
Night and Day Pictures
Rating
R (Drug and Sexual Content|Violence|Some Language)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 42m