Here we have a documentary about the Caltech basketball team, which is currently in the throes of an 0-two hundred something losing streak. The film follows the team for a season and adds in lots of history about past teams. The "novelty" is that Caltech, the premier intellectual center of our time, has a sports program. This is only a 90 minute film, but I got kind of tired of the "novelty". It plays as if the school and the players are just a bit proud of their superior sportsmanship and commitment, that they can continue to play hard in spite of the hopelessness of the situation. It comes across a bit arrogant. I don't think that the individual players feel this, but the program (and the film) seem to portray it. I might be wrong. Even so, the last part of the film gives us 10 minutes chronicling the last game of the season. In spite of everything, this ten minutes is a great sports story that pulled me in.
3-stars (out of 5)
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