2009’s Hurricane Season follows the true story of a small New Orleans high school basketball team following the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The movie stars Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland, Panic Room) as Al Collins, a driven and resolute coach. His job is to unite eight players who went to five different schools before the hurricane and attempt to coach them through the Louisiana State High School Basketball Tournament. He must mesh the players’ unique personalities and hidden agendas and turn them into a united team with the same goal in mind. And if you already think this movie sounds like 50% of the other sports movies you have seen, I don’t blame you. However, there is one difference. For the players on the team, and many in the city, basketball was all they had to help them temporarily forget about the devastation that ravaged their city.