In the Game (2015)
- Directed by
- Maria Finitzo
- Genre
- documentary film, association football film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary follows a girls' soccer team at a Chicago high school that faces budget cuts and limited resources. The players balance school, sports, and jobs while trying to overcome financial and academic challenges to pursue college.
hopefulstirringearnestgroundedpoignantobservationalunderstatedinspiring
What happens
In the Game is a 2015 documentary film directed by Peabody award-winner Maria Finitzo that follows the ups and downs of a girls’ soccer team. Set in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood, the film chronicles the obstacles that struggling low-income families and students must face in their quest for higher education. Elizabeth, captain of the girls soccer team, stresses going beyond what is expected of her teammates on and off the field. Many of the girls are juggling the pressures to get good grades, perform well for their soccer team, and help their families out financially by working. Kelly High School on Chicago’s south side is an inner city public school struggling to provide the basics for their students because of a lack of resources and funding with the school experiencing $4 million budget cuts. Many students of Kelly High School do not make it to college, either because they cannot compete academically or because their families do not have the financial resources to send them to college. The girls face an uneven playing field - or in the case of the girls at Kelly High School, no soccer field at all - little or no support, problems at home, uncertain futures, racial discrimination, and poverty, but remain driven and hopeful thanks to their teammates and the dedicated mentoring of their coach. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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