Through the Fire 2-Disc Special Edition

Product Description Experience a riveting film that chronicles the riches-or-ruin gamble of one of basketball's fastest rising stars. Sebastian Telfair risks everything in the hopes of providing a better life for his family and realizing his dream of playing professional ball. ESPN's critically acclaimed documentary captures all the action, emotion and excitement of an amazing year in the life of Coney Island's hoop prodigy. You won't want to miss Sebastian Telfair's astonishing jump from local neighborhood phenom to first-round draft pick. Disc 1: Feature Presentation (Director's Cut - Extended and Uncensored) Deleted Scenes Extended Interviews With Sebastian Talfair, Rick Pitino And Others Exclusive NYC Playground And Game Highlights Q&A Footage From The Tribeca Film Festival Director's Commentary Disc 2: Complete Games -2003 High School Classic - Edgewater vs. Lincoln -2004 McDonald's High School All American Game Roundtable Discussion With Sebastian Telfair And Family Sebastian Telfair On It's The Shoes Amazon.com A remarkable documentary about expectations, pressure, and changing goals in the face of terrible economic adversity, Through the Fire is the emotion-packed story of Coney Island boy and current Boston Celtics guard Sebastian Telfair. After his older brother Jamel Thomas failed to get picked during an NBA draft despite his superb reputation at Providence College, Telfair's family has to pick itself up off the ground and continue to survive in a violence-ridden housing project. Initially planning to skip college and go to the pros, Telfair announces a reversal of plans, then ends up re-considering everything as his family's situation goes from bad to worse. The film captures the drive of Telfair's contemporaries back at Coney Island, who dream of an upward mobility driven by hoops prowess, yet more often than not are shattered by brutal realities. Telfair's story is here in moving detail, leading up to almost unbearable suspense as his family await word about his chances in an NBA draft. A second disc in this set includes some truly fun stuff, including a roundtable discussion between significant individuals in Telfair's life as well as Through the Fire's director; archival material focusing on a couple of key high school games in Telfair's early development; and a video about Adidas shoes. --Tom Keogh