Nick Young, an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Washington Wizards of the NBA is filmed in Second Chance Season, a thoughtful documentary from Daniel H Forer. The film has made Nick Young to be an iconographic figure for an entire generation of struggling young men.
Second Chance Season makes us aware of what a single family can have as a long-term impact of a senseless killing. The documentarial season describes a family’s effort in desperation to achieve victory by laying all optimism on its youngest son through basketball.
The 17-year-old Nick is a twice dropped out high school who is pardoned by the school board to comeback for his senior year. Following the murder of his older brother, Charles, Jr, by gang members in his class, Coach Andre Chevalier and principal Al Weiner readmitted the dropped out Nick Young to Cleveland High. Now it depends on courage and nerve to prove a less athletically gifted black student can be as fortunate.
In the middle of the struggle to keep his family united after the murder of his brother and his unbearable basketball dreams, he realized that he need to be succesful both on and off the court to lead the family into a promising and hopeful future.
Nick Young was not only just considered inferior, he also burdens a significant emotional cases. Two of the toughest are his mother’s expectation that he will go pro, and the death of his brother, Charles, Jr. All the burdens put together with external pressures drive Nick Young realizes that his success is the family’s last best hope.
In the middle of his effort and success in reaching his “hoop dreams”, Nick Young must also deal with a difficult reality in his late years that he won’t be able to graduate with GPA<2.5 and SAT score of 800s. The film perfectly wraps Nick Young’s endless fight to perform on the court and getting through his SAT producing a real competitive drama.
Second Chance Season also accomplishes a deeper achievement when Marcus G – Charles, Jr’s convicted killer – surfaces in the film. The part of the film sucessfully features the subject of forgiveness and how an ex-con is able to reform.
During the making of the season, Mae and Charles, Sr (Nick Young’s parents) allows great access for Forer to their lives including eventful dinners, stressful memories for their lost, Nick Young’s mentally disturbed brother, John, which in return, result a well done collaboration with Forer and his crews and makes the film reach its optimum impact.
Second Chance Season isn’t only exclusive for basketball fans. Everyone else will also be moved by it’s dramatic and emotional impact. Here’s a video of Second Chance Season trailer – Nick Young documentary.
On September 24, 2008 at 10:30pm (EST), a documentary on Nick Young’s senior year in high school will be aired on ESPN2.
A must see for everybody, not just basketball fans. If you liked Glory Road or Blue Chips or any other basketball movie, this will blow it away. A great story of perseverance, family, friends and always believing.
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