How do you make a basketball movie in 2020 that doesn’t get quickly compared to Hoosiers, Coach Carter, Glory Road, and Hurricane Season, not to mention the many other films about a sports team facing adversity? Sometimes, when you see the trailers for the first time of a movie like Gavin O’Connor’s (The Accountant, Warrior), The Way Back, you kind of groan, thinking, “Here we go again. How are we supposed to get something different from this movie?” But he was unequivocally able to do that. Admittedly, this movie could have been better in its script and sequencing. Still, its parts made up for its occasional lack of cohesion and left you feeling hopeful in a movie you expected to find hope, albeit in a much different way.