A basketball coach is sentenced to community service, forced to work with a team of mentally disabled players.A basketball coach is sentenced to community service, forced to work with a team of mentally disabled players.A basketball coach is sentenced to community service, forced to work with a team of mentally disabled players.
- Awards
- 13 wins & 31 nominations
Alberto Nieto Ferrández
- Benito
- (as Alberto Nieto)
Jesús Lago
- Jesús
- (as Jesús Lago Solís)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaLooking for more realism, director Javier Fesser wanted non-professional actors, but real-life disabled people for the basketball team. All of them make their debut with this movie.
- GoofsThe employee of the shop looks very much after his motor home, and he is very reluctant to lend it. As an example of how much he takes care of the van, he mentions that he uses 98 octane petrol (gas). Motor homes in Spain (except for a few very old ones) run on diesel.
- Crazy creditsThere is one more scene just before the closing credits are complete.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Premios Goya 33 edición (2019)
- SoundtracksPick and Roll
Written by Rafael Arnau (as Rafa Arnau)
Performed by Los Floros and Pablo Sanpa (guitar)
Featured review
Inspiring sports film that follows the formula of the trainer with problems that grows as a person next to his team that also has problems.
If the formula works do not break it, and here it works for a good time in the movies with mom. The colorful characters that make up this basketball team are those who maintain this film with their charisma, as well as the initial approach to the story, which is attractive and captures attention.
However, the plot is going through the path of laziness to resolve their conflicts, until reaching a moment where the main character makes an unethical decision to solve a problem; this makes the outcome anticlimactic.
In the epilogue, this character also sins superbly and makes his team do something that he should have done because his life changed thanks to them. This ruins the moral of the story, putting a corny but loose outcome.
In short, it is a film of good intentions but that goes from more to less until reaching an unsatisfactory resolution.
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- Чемпіони
- Filming locations
- Islantilla, Isla Cristina/Lepe, Huelva, Andalucía, Spain(Hotel de Canarias)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- €4,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $27,344,401
- Runtime2 hours 4 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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