T his epic three-hour doc is less slice-of-life, more complete immersion in the very souls of two basketball prospects from Chicago in the late ’80s/early ’90s. Made even more poignant by the hindsight of the youngsters’ ultimately failed NBA aspirations, and without resorting to hyperbole or bombast, Hoop Dreams follows the players from high-school promise to NCAA struggles. Its years-long, deeply intimate fly-on-the-wall shoot, chronicling an ever-resonant story of two ordinary people with extraordinary goals, is still unparalleled in sports-documaking.