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Mixed or average reviews - based on 16 Critics What's this?

  • Summary: Shortly after World War I, a new teacher (Coyote) brings basketball to a school in a small Pacific Northwest town. He helps to unite the town during a tense period which includes the immigration to the United States of German citizens.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 16
  2. Negative: 2 out of 16
  1. Well-acted, briskly paced and prettily photographed, the film is a mild-mannered family story with a caring heart, and that's ultimately enough to make its 104 minutes worthwhile.
  2. Reviewed by: Robin Rauzi
    60
    It may be a hard sell to the Gameboy generation, but The Basket has charms that may be more evident to adults.
  3. 33
    A contrived and sentimental melodrama, the film takes a promising premise and crushes it with mind-numbing repetition, sophomoric conveniences, plastic acting and the worst score, perhaps, ever heard.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2

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