Basketball enthusiasts are going to love this – and what’s not to love? Whenever Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are in the same place at the same time magic happens.
Award-winning director Affleck, heads up a stellar cast of Matt Damon, Jason Bateman, Marlon Wayans, Chris Messina, Chris Tucker and the immeasurable talent of Viola Davis playing Michael Jordan’s mother, Deloris Jordan.
Air reveals the unbelievable game-changing partnership between a then rookie Michael Jordan and Nike’s fledgling basketball division, which revolutionised the world of sports and contemporary culture with the Air Jordan brand. This moving story follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional team with everything on the line, the uncompromising vision of a mother who knows the worth of her son’s immense talent, and the basketball phenom who would become the greatest of all time.
Of her role as Deloris, Viola Davis says she was at first taken aback when she heard that Michael Jordan had asked she play his mother, but then realised it was actually a huge honour.
In an interview Davis says the story is about ‘dreaming dreams… I have a very close personal relationship with dreams. Because dreams, I’ll tell you, no matter what your circumstances are in life, no matter what you were born into, your dreams are the tools that keep you alive. And I’m always interested in people who have the most outrageous dreams, who really think outside of the box and go for it. I compare that to magic’.
Air is screening this week at Ballina Fair Cinemas and Palace Cinemas, Byron Bay.
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