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Title: Uplifting Triumphant Trials of Underdogs
Review: This fact-based movie has heroes and villains and plenty of confrontations. In the 60's, a young coach and his wife travel to his first solo assignment in a small town with the expectation of coaching a boys' basketball team. After "Clay" has accepted the position and moved, he is informed that he will be coaching girls and that the towns' support of his program is virtually nonexistent. Adult politics and prejudice are constants in his battle to transform nice farm girls into basketball players, but the girls are the surprise in this sweet sleeper of a movie. They are realistic but determined to have a program "like the boys'" and their persistence and determination are absent of malice or crudeness. Clay, his wife, and the girls have ups and downs and unexpected growth in many ways but triumph in this fact-based story. It is great family entertainment that shows a realistic slice of life for many Americans before Title IX.
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