Edge Of America

From Hoopedia

(2004)

Wes Studi, Eddie Spears, Delanna Studi, Tim Daly and Irene Bedard.

Native American filmmaker Chris Eyre’s made-for-TV (Showtime) sports drama, shot entirely in Salt Lake City, and drawing heavily on a cast made up of talented locals, is based on a true story. James McDaniel plays an African-American from Texas who moves to a reservation in Utah to take a job as an English teacher. He has a difficult time fitting in with the tightly knit Native American community. It gets even tougher when he's asked to coach the girls’ high school basketball team. He has to struggle with getting the mocked and poorly performing team back in shape to play the nearby all-white high school.