Lenny Cooke

Lenny Cooke (2013)

Remember His Face.

In 2001, Lenny Cooke was the most hyped high school basketball player in the country, ranked above future greats LeBron James, Amar’e Stoudemire, and Carmelo Anthony. A decade later, Lenny has never played a minute in the NBA. In this quintessentially American documentary, filmmaking brothers Joshua and Benny Safdie track the unfulfilled destiny of a man for whom superstardom was only just out of reach.

Date of release
2013-12-06
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (14)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie

Casting

Interesting facts

Lenny Cooke is a 2013 American sports documentary film directed by Josh and Benny Safdie. It tells the life of the former high school basketball player Lenny Cooke. The film had its world premiere at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival on April 18, 2013. It was released in the United States in limited theaters on December 6, 2013.

Production

Adam Shopkorn, who set out to make a documentary about a high school basketball player becoming an NBA player, followed Lenny Cooke around with several cinematographers in 2001. Subsequently, he lost touch with Cooke. In 2010, he went to a screening of Josh and Benny Safdie's film Daddy Longlegs and asked them to check the footage. The Safdies agreed to join the project and started filming Cooke, which lasted nearly three years.

In a 2013 interview with Complex, Cooke stated that he "enjoyed filming it." He added, "Got some good points in it, got some bad points in it, but that's life and I hope the next generation of student-athletes take heed to it."

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