Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story
| Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story | |
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| Genre | Biography Drama Sport |
| Written by | Fred Johnson |
| Screenplay by | Fred Johnson Don Enright Ed Fields |
| Story by | Fred Johnson |
| Directed by | Charles Braverman |
| Starring |
Victor Love Duane Davis George Kennedy Nell Carter Sam Hennings |
| Music by | Stanley Clarke |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Executive producer(s) | Russell Vreeland |
| Producer(s) |
Don Enright Les Alexander James P. McGillen Joe Lunne (associate producer) |
| Location(s) |
Los Angeles Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Santa Monica, California |
| Cinematography | Stephen Blake |
| Running time | 92 minutes |
| Production company(s) | McGillen Entertainment Alexander, Enright & Associates Tribune Entertainment |
| Distributor | Tribune Entertainment |
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| Original release | March 29, 1992 |
Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story is an American 1992 sports drama biography television film about the life of Loyola Marymount basketball player Eric "Hank" Gathers, written for Tribune Entertainment by Fred Johnson, Don Enright and Ed Fields, and directed by Charles Braverman.
This film follows the life of basketball legend Eric "Hank" Gathers, from his growing up in the ghettos of Philadelphia to his freshman year at USC through his brief career playing basketball for Loyola Marymount University, where he collapsed during a game and died of a heart ailment.
Casting began in late 1991, with a television debut slated for March 1992. The project was filmed in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; as well as in Santa Monica and Los Angeles, California.
Entertainment Weekly wrote that the film "does a decent job of showing us the person inside the uniform," but felt that the film is overall "too sketchily told to be truly satisfying."
Dallas Morning News felt that the film went beyond disappointing to become "an insult -- not for what it focuses on, but for what it leaves out." The reviewer felt that the film fell "in line with many TV projects based on real-life people by reducing its subject to sterotypes."
Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that film suffered in its dwelling less on the formative events of Gathers' life to concentrate too much upon his basketball career.
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