Reviews

I was absolutely shocked from this documentary! I recently saw this at the Big Muddy Film Festival and did not expect to see such beautiful Iowa sunrises and sunsets shining on corn fields- being intertwined with a tragic drug story of a young girl named Amber, hooked on Speed.

I was amazed at how Amber was so appealing and yet still very responsible for the tragic day (which has some hard to look images of "the incident") and how Amber's family was just one of the many families that was hooked on these Meth. drugs from just a small town in Iowa.

I have also heard of another Speed/Crystal Meth. in the Midwest documentary that MTV is doing. Obviously these documentaries are going to make this problem in our Heartland more public and hopefully discourage teenagers from using these drugs from seeing some of these truly sad stories.

I give the POOR MAN'S DOPE documentary an overall rating of 5 out of 5 stars.

Over a period of a high school career Hoop Dreams follows two young basketball players from Chicago; William Gates and Arthur Agee. While William seems to get his career started in the right place (by the same coaching and school that Isiah Thomas went to) Arthur is let go and switches to another high school with a less prestigious basketball program. The documentary gives us an in depth look of William and Arthur showing us how their lives change as they become stars. I really hope there are reunion sequels as I have felt like I was a part of their life, after learning intimate details of their hopes and aspirations as well as their sometimes very painful parent relationships.