Saturday, April 18, 2009

SiM Trailer: Ball Don't Lie

Director: Brin Hill (The Ecology of Love)
Writers: Brin Hill (Morning Breath), Matt de la Pena (Ball Don't Lie novel)
Cast: Grayson "The Professor" Boucher (Semi-Pro), Dania Ramirez (X-Men: The Last Stand), Emilie de Ravin (Lost), Ricardo Chavira (Desperate Housewives), Nick Cannon (Drumline), Chris "Ludacris" Bridges (Crash), Melissa Leo (Frozen River), Rosanna Arquette (Pulp Fiction), Kim Hidalgo (How to Save a Life), James Pickens, Jr. (Grey's Anatomy), Harold Perrineau (Lost)
Distributors: Night & Day Pictures
Release Date: June 5, 2009 (limited)

Synopsis: Brin Hill's basketball drama Ball Don't Lie is based on Matt de la Pena's applauded novel of the same name (2005), about a 17-year-old foster kid named Sticky (Boucher), who is one of the top basketball players in Venice, California, with the power to heal. Boucher is an actual b-ball star, a member of the AND1 Mix Tape Team, and is known simply as "The Professor." Ball Don't Lie, which premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, will be released in limited theatres this summer.

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