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📜 Overview: From a basketball academy in Senegal, to the high-pressure world of American prep schools, the film documents the extraordinary personal journeys of four particularly tall West African Muslim teenage boys with NBA dreams.
🌏 Languages Available: English , French , Wolof
📆 Date Released: 2011-10-21
⌚ Running Time: 81 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 6.5

Beloved Cast

Amadou Gallo Fall original image
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Amadou Gallo Fall
Papa Madethie 'Dethie' Fall original image
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Papa Madethie 'Dethie' Fall

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