A young teenager gets a golden chance to become a basketball pro star.
7 June 1975, Hampton, Virginia, USA
24 June 1969, Brooklyn, New York, USA
31 August 1954, Van Nuys, California, USA
4 May 1958
12 May 1963, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
July 24, 1975 in West Covina, California, USA
3 July 1952, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada
20 April 1964, New York City, New York, USA
1 August 1972, Troy, New York, USA
1 September 1959, Kent, Washington, USA
22 October 1990, Westlake Village, California, USA
6 August 1965, Key West, Florida, USA
27 March 1988, Carmichael, California, USA
1 September 1975, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
24 May 1979, Bartow, Florida, USA
December 25, 2010
Lil Bow Wow in family friendly fantasy.
June 24, 2006
Bow Wow makes an impressive film debut; parents and children will love Calv's plucky can-do attitude; and the action sequences are given a little more oomph due to the presence of real life basketball pros.
August 01, 2002
As predictable as a Lakers championship.
March 25, 2008
[A] summer-weight but winsome basketball fantasy.
July 11, 2002
A valueless kiddie paean to pro basketball underwritten by the NBA.
January 12, 2004
There's no joke about the wretchedness that is Like Mike--except the cruel one on anyone who gets suckered into watching this crap.
September 02, 2003
A fantasy fable that should keep everyone in the family entertained.
December 06, 2005
There's no excuse to come within a hundred feet of a screen playing this monstrosity of a movie.
December 30, 2006
It's formulaic stuff but done with enough gusto to entertain.
February 08, 2003
...Full of stereotypical characters, plot holes, and unconvincing dialogue delivered by a host of so-so actors...
March 25, 2008
Director John Schultz's movie is as lame and predictable as you'd imagine, and it's chock full of orphanage cliches.
July 11, 2002
As with too many studio pics, plot mechanics get in the way of what should be the lighter-than-air adventure.
