The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened (1977)
Just before a championship basketball tournament, a teenage athlete learns that he has leukemia.
- Date of release
- 1977-10-26
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Director
- Gilbert Moses
Casting
- Jimmie Walker — Morris Bird III
- James Earl Jones — Morris Bird, Jr.
- Debbie Allen — Julie Sutton
- Tamu Blackwell — Sandra Bird
- Valerie Curtin — Miss Goldfarb
- Kevin Hooks — Hoover Sissle
- Sorrell Booke — Samuelson
- Darrell Zwerling — Dr. Brimson
- Sam Laws — Horton
- Harry Caesar — Bonner
- S. Pearl Sharp — Aunt Edythe
- William Traylor — Coach
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