The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened (1977)

Drama, Made for TV, Sports

Director: Gilbert Moses

Writer(s): Peter S. Beagle, Don Robertson

Starring: Jimmie Walker, James Earl Jones, Debbie Allen, Tamu Blackwell, Valerie Curtin, Kevin Hooks, Sorrell Booke, William Traylor, Darrell Zwerling, Sam Laws, Harry Caesar, S. Pearl Sharp, Betty Aberlin, Steve Doubet, Anson Downes, Ned Gill, Hilda Haynes, Kathryn Jackson, Amy Joyce, Brian Kerwin, Kathy O’Dare, Robert Reese, David Rini, Murray Rubin, Abigail Shelton, Daniel Tamm, David Tyree, Royce Wallace

Synopsis: Just before a championship basketball tournament, a teenage athlete learns that he has leukemia.

Release Date: October 26, 1977 (USA) | Length: 100 min | Genre: Drama, Sport | MPAA Rating: NR