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SOURCE: MovieWeb | Philana Marie Boles
June 11, 2023

Set in the 1990s, Shooting Stars is a real-life basketball story about NBA basketball player and movie producer LeBron James and his friends growing up in Akron, Ohio. With touching, uplifting, and often humorous, themes about friendship, loyalty, perseverance, and sacrifice, it stars Marquis “Mookie” Cook (in his screen acting debut) as James, Caleb McLaughlin(Stranger Things) as ‘Lil Dru, Avery “AJ” Wills Jr. (Swagger) as Willie McGee, Khalil Everage(Cobra Kai) as Sian Cotton, and Sterling “Scoot” Henderson as Romeo Travis (also in his screen acting debut).