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D.B. Sweeney, Mike Warren, Richard Jordan, Victor Love, Janet Julian ... see more see more... , Bo Kimble , Nigel Miguel , Terry Bradley , Cylk Cozart , Kendall Gill , Hakeem Olajuwon , Michael Warren

Set in Chicago, Heaven is a Playground is about an inner-city basketball coach and a young lawyer who set out to save a group of teen-aged boys from crime and drugs by giving them athletic scholarship... read more read more...s and teaching them basketball. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 44 min.

Directed by: Randall Fried

Release Date: October 4, 1991

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DVD Release Date: August 10, 2004

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January 10, 2004
Chicago Reader

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Roger Ebert
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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October 1, 2005
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