On June 16, Landmark Century Cinema, 2828 N. Clark, will present The Heart of the Game, a documentary that examines the life cycle of a Seattle high-school girls' basketball team, its unorthodox coach and the true story of one player's fight to play the game she loves.
When Seattle filmmaker Ward Serrill met Bill Resler, a college tax professor who moonlights as the girls' basketball coach of the Roosevelt Roughriders, it was the start of a seven-year journey. Serrill, camera in hand, followed Resler into the Roosevelt High School gym and soon discovered a group of girls whose unbridled toughness, passion and energy led him to the movie's title.
Then, one day, onto the Roughriders' court ( and into the film ) walked Darnellia Russell—a tough, inner-city girl whose off-court struggles would ultimately threaten to crash the star athlete's plans to play college ball and be the first person in her family to get a college education.
The Heart of the Game is rated PG-13 for brief strong language and has a running time of 98 minutes.