Above the Rim (1994)

Movie: Above the Rim (1994)


  • Director: Jeff Pollack

  • Release Date: 23 March 1994 (USA)

  • Run Time: 96 min

  • Country: USA

  • Genre: Crime , Drama , Sport  



Tagline: The Hardest Part Of Winning Is Choosing Sides.  

Trivia: At the start when Shep awakes from the nightmare, you hear the intro to Tupac Shakur's "Pain" - "I Couldn't help but notice your pain" - "My pain?" - "It runs deep, share it with me!". This voice-over is from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989).
 

Goofs: Continuity: During the final basketball game, when Shep makes a finger roll for a layup, his jersey and #15 are backwards.
 

"Story of Kyle-Lee Watson, a promising high school basketball star, and his relationships with Birdie, a powerful drug dealer, and Birdie's brother, Thomas 'Shep' Sheppard, himself once a promising high school star at Kyle's school, now employed as a security guard. Written by <xDiezel21x@yahoo.com>"

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