Synopsis/Details
It's The Summer of 1974. The Jackson 5 are a Dancing Machine. Stevie Wonder is Living For The City. President Nixon is leaving office amid an explosive scandal, and "JJ Evans" is Dy-no-mite. Eric Collins is madly in love with basketball and pretty girls, both of which are a little out of reach. On Martha's Vineyard, Eric's fellow teens escape the headline violence of Boston's forced school busing, and the confines of their cities or boredom of their suburbs, to hoop, or cheer with their summer friends from Oak Bluffs. The center of their universe is "The Courts", where an all day, all night summer basketball league serves as diversion, entertainment, gossip mill, dating service and fashion show.
Attached Talent
Nicole Franklin, director
All Accolades & Coverage
Made quarterfinals of BET's "Color Creative" contest
Story & Logistics
Story Type:
Pursuit
Story Situation:
Obstacles to love
Story Conclusion:
Bitter-sweet
Linear Structure:
Linear
Moral Affections:
Innocence
Cast Size:
Several
Locations:
Few
Special Effects:
Blue/green screen
Characters
Lead Role Ages:
Male Teenager
Hero Type:
Gifted
Villian Type:
Authority Figure
Stock Character Types:
Girl next door
Advanced
Adaption:
Based on True Events
Subgenre:
Childhood
Subculture:
Jock
Action Elements:
Physical Stunts
Equality & Diversity:
Minority Protagonist
Life Topics:
Childhood
Time Period:
The Seventies (1970–1979)
Country:
United States of America (USA)
Time of Year:
Summer
Sport Topics:
Basketball
Relationship Topics:
Courtship
Writer Style:
Gina Prince-Bythewood
