Like Mike Movie Review 2002

That's "Mike" as in basketball legend Michael Jordan--or at least his basketball shoes. A pair of old shoes, supposedly once belonging to Jordan, is donated to an orphanage and ending up the property of teen Calvin (Bow Wow). The shoes give him super skills on the basketball court, and he wins a chance to play spoiled star Tracey (Chestnutt) during halftime of a game. Impressed, the coach (Forster) signs Calvin to the fictional L.A. Knights. The hoops story is merely window dressing, however, because most of the story revolves around the efforts of Calvin and fellow orphans Murph (Lipnicki) and Reg (Song) to get adopted. NBA players Gary Payton, Alonzo Mourning, Rasheed Wallace, and Jason Kidd make appearances.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 100 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Adoption & Orphans, Basketball, Philadelphia, Teen Angst, Junior Jocks

Screenplay

Jordan Moffet, Mike Elliot

Cast

Bow Wow, Jonathan Lipnicki, Morris Chestnut, Eugene Levy, Crispin Glover, Robert Forster, Brenda Song, Jesse Plemons, Julius Charles Ritter, Anne Meara

Cinematography

Shawn Maurer

Director

John Schultz

Music

Richard Gibbs

Other

David MacMillan, Billy Gottlieb, Peter E. Berger, John Pace, John R. Zachary, Mary Jane Fort, Arlan Jay Vetter

Producer

Barry Josephson, Peter Heller, NBA Entertainment, 20th Century-Fox