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Award-winning filmmaker Peter Nicks returns with his documentary Stephen Curry: Underrated, an intimate look at NBA superstar Stephen Curry’s improbable coming of age at tiny Davidson College, where, under the wing of coach Bob McKillop, the team made a thrilling run in the 2008 NCAA tournament. With access to Curry throughout the 2021 season, the film also weaves the Golden State Warriors’ attempt to win another NBA championship following one of the worst seasons in franchise history. Stephen Curry: Underrated gives us a glimpse into Curry’s personal life as he juggles the demands of his professional career to fulfill a promise he made to his mother when he left Davidson early to declare for the draft: he would get his college degree. Nicks successfully weaves the parallels he finds in video footage of Curry, as an aspiring athlete and as a professional basketball star, to tell the remarkable story of a kid who rose from an undersized and inconspicuous high school basketball player to an NBA icon. (Sundance Film Festival)
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As a likeable "what a great university Davidson is" recruitment video, passable, as a non-conflicting "I'm finishing my old school and broke the record for most three pointers" vignette about Stephen Curry, also passable. But you learn nothing about Curry himself, nor about his "against all physical and statistical odds" more than successful career (he was one of the three best basketball players in the world at one time). The first years in the NBA, the series of injuries, the three titles during the Warriors' reign, the retreat from the limelight, and the shocking fourth championship. No space is given to that at all. Instead, we see Curry a hundred times, hanging out with his family or former teammates. And yet, Curry himself, the entire Warriors era, and even the coach who has spent three decades with young men at the university deserve a proper documentary.
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