The Hollywood Shorties 2016

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NETFLIX Rating : 2.9

IMDB Rating : 7.8

FD Smart Rating : 6.8

Synopsis : The history-making Hollywood Shorties basketball team packed the court with familiar faces from the big screen -- and all of them were little people.

Regions Available ( 9 ) :
American Samoa , Greece , Guam , Marshall Islands , Northern Mariana Islands , Puerto Rico , United States Minor Outlying Islands , Vietnam , Virgin Islands, U.S.

Actors:

Tony Cox , Martin Klebba , Jimmy Briscoe , Kevin Thompson

Creators:

Ryan Steven Green

Languages:

English , English [Original]

Subtitles:

English

Genres:

Documentary, History, Sport

Release Date:

2016

Run Time:

1h24m

Maturity Rating:

Recommended for ages 13 and up

The Hollywood Shorties is a documentary on the birth of organized sports in the American dwarf community. Beginning in the 1950s and rising to prominence in the 1980s, the Hollywood Shorties were a basketball team, the first of their kind and unique in the history of dwarf athletics. Formed from an insular community of recognizable-but-typecast actors in - wait for it - Hollywood, the team began simply as a rare outlet for little people to gather publicly. As the team's athletic skill increased, so did its membership and so too its popularity. By the early 1980s, the Shorties had created a niche in entertainment akin to the Harlem Globetrotters, playing exhibitions from Gladstone High to the Fabulous Forum with their signature blend of comedy and basketball prowess. Simultaneously, they found themselves the vanguard of a revolutionary movement to bring little people into the public eye as something other than objects of curiosity. But, in a bittersweet turn, the very popularity that the Shorties singlehandedly created would eventually phase the team out of the sport they pioneered. But their legacy stands without peer and is recounted here by original team members and the generation they inspired.