During a televised game, Kyle hits the game winner, while a recovered Shep watches with a smile. In the end, Kyle is revealed to have gotten the scholarship to Georgetown University. At a club, Bugaloo walks near Birdie and shoots Birdie, killing him, as revenge for previous humiliations. A security guard then fatally shoots Motaw twice. Shep protects Kyle by jumping on him and Motaw shoots Shep. In the final seconds, he passes the ball to Kyle, who dunks the ball and Kyle's team wins the game.Īfter the loss, Birdie orders Motaw, his star player and gang member, to kill Kyle. Despite being aggressively attacked throughout, Shep helps the team come back. Shep, unable to watch any longer, joins Kyle's team. Kyle is brutalized throughout the game, with Birdie's team having a solid lead. In the tournament, both Kyle's and Birdie's teams march to the finals, with Kyle's team playing solid team basketball, while Birdie's team plays a very rough & dirty style.īefore the finals, Birdie threatens Kyle, demanding Kyle to throw away the game, so that Birdie's team would win. Kyle makes a decision to run with Birdie's team until he decided to come back to his old team, because of Birdie's wrongful actions against Flip and Kyle's friend Bugaloo. It is later revealed to Kyle that Shep is Birdie's older brother.

Kyle feels resentment towards the security guard, because Kyle's own mother is falling in love with Shep.Ĭoincidentally, Kyle's coach also wants Shep to coach his team when he feels it is time for him to retire. Thomas 'Shep' Sheppard, a former standout player himself, now works as a high school security guard. He must decide whether to play for and follow his widely beloved basketball coach Mike Rollins and Birdie, a local drug dealer in the neighborhood. While he waits to find out if he will receive a scholarship to Georgetown University, he finds himself in a difficult dilemma over a playground basketball tournament. Kyle-Lee Watson is a talented basketball player who is about to graduate from high school. Tilden High School in Brooklyn, New York. Some of the basketball scenes were filmed at Samuel J. The film mostly took place in Harlem, with various scenes filmed at the Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics in East Harlem. Considered the conclusion to Cooper's 'Harlem Trilogy' (the preceding films being New Jack City (1991) and Sugar Hill (1994), the film tells the story about a promising New York City high school basketball star and his relationships with a drug dealer and a former basketball star, now employed as a security guard at the high school he was a promising young star at years ago. The film stars Duane Martin, Tupac Shakur, Leon and Marlon Wayans. The screenplay was written by Barry Michael Cooper, adapted from a story by Benny Medina. Above the Rim is a 1994 American sports drama film co-written and directed by Jeff Pollack in his directorial debut.

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