A wild ride to the NCAA men's basketball finals with plucky third-year coach Jim Valvano and his unlikely NC State Wolfpack. Already lead players in a dramatic, historic underdog tale, in getting to know the team on a personal basis, we're given even more reasons to pull for their seemingly-impossible victory.
The surviving members of the squad, having suffered two major personal losses in the thirty years since they were Final Four Cinderellas, now meet on an annual basis to reconnect and recount memories of that one destiny-driven ride. We sit in on one such reunion, with the former teammates' overwhelming sense of community and kinship not only providing a more colorful, entertaining narration for the action on the court, but an intense, raw shared emotion that shows us the full depth of character present in each man. By the closing credits, they feel like family and the incredible conclusion of their athletic pinnacle, thirty years gone, resonates with a new sense of vibrancy.
Stirring, motivating, emotionally-affecting stuff that swells the heart and moves the spirit.