Fast Break
Fast Break

Fast Break

10.0

1 hr 45 min

1978-09-01

1

Evoking a cinema verite feel not found in most sports documentaries, Fast Break examines the 1977 Portland Trailblazers basketball team in a surprisingly personal and compelling fashion. Inter-cutting excerpts from the 1977 playoff / championship season, the film steps outside of the basketball court, and into the everyday lives of the Trailblazers, as well as their coach Jack Ramsey. Whether it’s biking the Oregon coast with star center Bill Walton, hosting a kids basketball camp with Dave Twardzik, or joking with Maurice Lucas at the pool – Fast Break lets the players speak for themselves: about basketball, life and playing in Portland. Fast Break, a film documentary about Bill Walton and the Portland Trail Blazers winning the 1976-77 NBA title and the aftermath of their accomplishment, is the greatest movie I have ever seen on the subject of professional team sports, basketball as a metaphor for life, and the perfect practice of Zen Buddhism in American society.

Documentary

Trailers

Characters

Don Zavin

Don Zavin

Bill Walton

Bill Walton

Self

Jack Ramsey

Jack Ramsey

Dave Twardzik

Dave Twardzik

Maurice Lucas

Maurice Lucas

Similar Movies

Last Days of Solitary

2017-03-27

Chelsea FC - Season Review 2007/08

2008-06-13

Neverland

2009-08-28

Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar

1995-01-01

Chelsea FC - Season Review 2018/19

2019-06-24

The Oklahoma Heisman

2006-03-20

Gift of the Game

2002-08-01

IN DEEP: The Skiing Experience

2009-09-01

The Day Called X

1957-12-08

Red Penguins

2019-09-05

Gateways to the Mind

1958-10-23

Hugo Pratt, trait pour trait

2016-03-23

Chelsea FC - Season Review 2014/15

2015-06-15

The Lost Spirits

2009-01-01

Allen Iverson: The Answer

2016-06-06

Germany: A Summer's Fairytale

2006-10-03

D'un film à l'autre

2011-04-13

Playboy: Playmate Playoffs

1986-01-01

Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty

1938-06-02

The Fabulous Ice Age

2013-04-14