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Freestyle

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An Oxford-bound teen and a street-wise basketball player begin a full-court romance.

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Anna Smith Empire Magazine 02/26/2010
2/5
Apart from Arinze Kene, the male lead, the stilted performances here, are enough to put anyone off. Go to Full Review
David Jenkins Time Out 02/26/2010
1/5
Shabbily filmed and poorly acted, its lone positive is a compellingly awful turn by Alfie (brother of Lily) Allen, whose bumbling, velour-tracksuited date-rapist is the sleaziest thing you(TM)ll see this year. Go to Full Review
Wendy Ide The Times (UK) 02/26/2010
1/5
Freestyle is a string of flashily edited musical montages of East London youth playing basketball, hung on the flimsy framework of a sub-Grange-Hill-quality script. Go to Full Review
Elliott Noble Sky Cinema 02/26/2010
2/5
Although the acting is generally closer to Grange Hill than Drury Lane, Kene shows bags of potential. Go to Full Review
Tom Dawson Total Film 02/26/2010
3/5
Admittedly, the characters are schematically drawn, but there's real chemistry between the freestyling leads and, refreshingly given the milieu, there's not a gun in sight. Go to Full Review
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08/26/2012 Full of cliches, ropey acting and a simplistic script, what is worse is that it also feels like a bunch of middle class actors trying to convince us they are from the 'streets'. See more 08/20/2012 It was like Step Up but with a basketball. It was okay, it passed the time. See more 04/29/2011 Good basketball romance film. Freestyle competion of basketball tricks. See more 03/16/2010 I am a sucker for London boys. Love the accent. Plus got a lil bit of b-ball action but mostly doing tricks with the actually ball itself. There's a brief but noticable dark skin vs light skin commentary. -Why! Why! them lightskinned sistas (mostly them ounce of black ones) got to take all the good brothas. Overall its a decent watch and its a love story and did I mention I love romance. See more 03/06/2010 The story the dances if they can called like that are utter nonsense or in shorter words crap. what a bogus movie I can't believe they actually said or called it the "British Step Up" Well then I'll go british on this Bollocks!! A romance set in the world of freestyle basketball. 17-year-old Ondene is beautiful, talented, and all set to study law at Oxford if her domineering mother, Hyacinth, has anything to do with it. When she falls for Leon a charming and charismatic freestyle basketball player, whose rough council estate background is worlds away from Ondenes posh private school he teaches her how to freestyle and persuades her to enter a local competition. Leon dreams of going to university, and the £15,000 prize money will be his passport to a new life When Hyacinth finds out about Ondene and Leon, she forbids them from seeing each other. With the freestyle finals looming, not to mention her A-level exams, Ondene has to make some tough decisions about her family, education, and the man she loves See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis An Oxford-bound teen and a street-wise basketball player begin a full-court romance.
Director
Kolton Lee
Producer
Lincia Daniel
Screenwriter
Michael Maynard
Production Co
Microwave, Film London
Rating
PG-13 (A Brief Sexual Assault|Teen Drinking)
Genre
Drama, Romance
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 17, 2016
Runtime
1h 28m
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