Jimmie Walker
Morris Bird III
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Oct 26, 1977 · The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened: Directed by Gilbert Moses. With Jimmie 'JJ' Walker, Debbie Allen, Tamu Blackwell, Valerie Curtin. Just before a championship basketball tournament, a teenage athlete learns that he has leukemia.
- (73)
- Drama, Sport
- Gilbert Moses
- 1977-10-26
Adapted from the novel by Don Robertson, Jimmie Walker plays a high school basketball player stricken with leukemia. Tony nominated director Gilbert Moses enlists a strong supporting cast, which ...
- 93 min
- 480.3K
- Reelblack One
The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened. A 1950s teenage basketball player (Jimmie Walker) has leukemia, and a father (James Earl Jones) who never had time for him.
- Drama
- Jimmie Walker
- Gilbert Moses
Sep 1, 2009 · The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened by Don Robertson is an emotionally resonant, wonderfully evocative journey back to the early 1950s that reintroduces readers to a teenaged Morris Bird III, one of the most endearing characters in contemporary American literature.
- (15)
- Don Robertson
Brief Synopsis. In the 1950s a teenage athlete learns that he has leukemia, and his winning spirit is threatened as he faces a major basketball tournament just before Christmas, while his dad's struggle to maintain his own self-respect often blinds him to his son's emotional needs.
- Gilbert Moses
- David Rini
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Oct 1, 1977 · The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened is the final book in Don Robertson's classic trilogy featuring one of the most endearing characters in American literature. Genres Fiction Historical Fiction. Paperback. First published October 1, 1977.
