Lenny Cooke
Lenny Cooke

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Professional sports is known as a true meritocracy, a field in which the cream really does rise to the top, as there's simply too much money at stake to operate in any other fashion. In uncommon instances, however, inefficiencies can occur and gifted players may fall through the cracks. Such is the story of Lenny Cooke. In 2001, Cooke was the number-one ranked high school basketball player in America, with future NBA greats LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony listed beneath him.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Lenny Cooke:

Lenny Cooke
Carmelo Anthony
Joakim Noah
Harvey Araton
Damany Eastman
Sonny Vaccaro

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Professional sports is known as a true meritocracy, a field in which the cream really does rise to the top, as there's simply too much money at stake to operate in any other fashion. In uncommon instances, however, inefficiencies can occur and gifted players may fall through the cracks. Such is the story of Lenny Cooke. In 2001, Cooke was the number-one ranked high school basketball player in America, with future NBA greats LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony listed beneath him. Yet after declaring himself eligible for the 2002 NBA draft, Cooke, shockingly, ended up going undrafted, and became a journeyman playing in little-known leagues across the world. Today he lives in southern Virginia, a should-have-been-great who simply did not quite make it. The first documentary feature from American independent film scene fixtures Josh & Benny Safdie (Daddy Longlegs, The Pleasure of Being Robbed), LENNY COOKE explores the fascinating question of how, exactly, Cooke's seemingly assured future could go so awry.

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The Playlist - 9/10 by Gabe ToroLenny Cooke isn't a documentary, it's an autopsy, detailing exactly why Cooke vanished off the map and why he struggled to get back into the game, a focus that goes micro where other sports docs go macro.
FILMINK (Australia) - 9/10 by Eli LandesThe Safdies have done remarkably well in resurrecting an old project, which although lacking in production value, simply needed to be seen by the world.
Village Voice - 9/10 by Alan ScherstuhlOrdinary life comes to look like a humiliation in the late reels of Lenny Cooke, yet another heartbreaker of a doc in which a compelling basketball story powers a discomfiting examination of a crisis facing young American men.
Indiewire - 9/10 by Eric KohnThe Safdies have stood out over the last few years for continually challenging audience expectations even while seeming to adhere to conventional storytelling traditions, and that's certainly true here: You've never seen a sports movie like this before.
New Yorker - 8/10 by Richard BrodyThe filmmakers imbue the found footage with their own wistful voice-Cooke could be one of their fictional characters, and, with modest yet ingenious special effects, they make it so.
Slant Magazine - 8/10 by Jesse CataldoWhile it verges on exploitation of the gentle giant at its core, it's also an effective bit of human drama, competently, and sometimes movingly, telling a story that deserves to be told.
RogerEbert.com - 8/10 by Odie HendersonThis is quite a good sports documentary, moving and unafraid of making you work for its pleasures.
Variety - 8/10 by Scott FoundasA penetrating and ultimately heartbreaking inventory of hard lessons learned on and off the court.
The A.V. Club - 8/10 by Ignatiy VishnevetskyThe question of why Cooke’s career never materialized hangs over the movie, but is never answered. What emerges instead is a portrait of a talented teenager being readied — by coaches, basketball camps, and the media — for a future that doesn’t arrive.
San Francisco Chronicle - 8/10 by Leba HertzLenny Cooke is humbling, as well as a cautionary tale for young people thinking they can make the big time.

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