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The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened

7.019771h 40mMovieDramaTV Movie

Just before a championship basketball tournament, a teenage athlete learns that he has leukemia.

DirectorGilbert Moses
WriterPeter S. Beagle

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Cast · Directed by Gilbert Moses

JWJimmie Walker
Jimmie Walker
Morris Bird III
JJJames Earl Jones
James Earl Jones
Morris Bird, Jr.
DADebbie Allen
Debbie Allen
Julie Sutton
TBTamu Blackwell
Tamu Blackwell
Sandra Bird
VCValerie Curtin
Valerie Curtin
Miss Goldfarb
KHKevin Hooks
Kevin Hooks
Hoover Sissle
SBSorrell Booke
Sorrell Booke
Samuelson
DZDarrell Zwerling
Darrell Zwerling
Dr. Brimson
SLSam Laws
Sam Laws
Horton
HCHarry Caesar
Harry Caesar
Bonner
SSS. Pearl Sharp
S. Pearl Sharp
Aunt Edythe
WTWilliam Traylor
William Traylor
Coach

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The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened hasn't started streaming in United Kingdom yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around December 14, 1977. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.