Of the people, for the people, and directed by the fanatically dedicated Danielle Gardner, Soul in the Hole is proof that the movies as populist entertainment have not perished from the earth. Set in Brooklyn during one steamy summer, it follows Kenny's Kings, a Bed-Stuy street basketball dream team, as it goes from tournament to tournament on what could be an unstoppable winning streak. But it's also the story of the love of Kenny Jones, the team's irrepressible coach, for Ed "Booger" Smith, the inspired point guard who becomes his surrogate son. The best film ever made about basketball-and about growing up black, male, and street-Soul in the Hole is, dare I admit it, a documentary...a passionate, nonjudgmental depiction of a street culture... That director Danielle Gardner is a...white woman who loves playground ball...calls into question easy assumptions about insiders and outsiders-especially when a camera's involved.-Amy Taubin, Village Voice