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Henry Steele is a basketball phenom at his small-town high school, but when he matriculates to a big-city university on a scholarship, he soon realizes that he has few skills outside the sport. Expected by his coach to contribute significantly to the team, Henry is overwhelmed by the demands on his time, the "big-business" aspect of college sports, and the fact that he never fully learned to read. Things look bleak for Henry when pretty grad student Janet Hays is assigned as Henrys tutor. Her intellect and strength lift Henry out of his doldrums just in time to battle the coach, who attempts to rescind Henrys scholarship.
Having turned down other scholarships, high-school basketball star Henry Steele of small-town Colorado accepts a four-year basketball scholarship to attend Western University in Los Angeles, recruited personally by the colleges renowned and winning basketball coach, Moreland Smith. The offer includes the basketball program handling almost every aspect of his life on campus, from the provision of housing in the dorm, to paying for a tutor--grad student Janet Hays--to help him with all his courses, to provision of a job-in-name-only for some pocket money, all for the goal of being able to focus on basketball. This situation is Henry and his parents dream as all his future hopes are pinned on basketball. He quickly shows his naivete about his new situation, such as that the showboating style that wowed crowds and won games back home doesnt sit well with the coach, as other team members are just as good as or better than Henry. And Janet has a well-founded condescending attitude toward Henry, having seen so many like him before who assume they dont need to do any schoolwork to get by. Henry will also learn of the corruption that exists within the system, which allows Coach Smiths administrative assistant B.J. Rudolph to use her position to try to gain sexual favors from the basketball players--Henry is her latest target--and allows Coach Smith himself to use less than ethical tactics to reach his end goal: a perfect, untainted record, both on the basketball court and for himself personally. With someone unexpectedly on his side within this environment, Henry must prove to himself and others that he belongs, while hopefully seeing the bigger picture of there being more to his life than just basketball.
Robby Benson
Henry Steele
Annette O'Toole
Janet Hays
G.D. Spradlin
Coach Moreland Smith
Gail Strickland
B.J. Rudolph
Melanie Griffith
The Hitchhiker
James G. Richardson
Malcolm
Hector Morales
Gonzales
Cory Faucher
Tom
Doug Sullivan
Young Henry Steele
Richard Jury
Father Steele
Liz Jury
Eunice Steele
Richard Jamison
High School Coach
George Walls
Wheeler
Harlan Knudson
Simon Bell
Lamont Johnson
Barry Brunz
Don Spencer
Photographer
Ronny Holiday
Phillips
Floyd Kerr
Jomo Wade
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