Aulcie

[Played Sept. 9 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups and available on Amazon Prime Video and various VOD platforms.] Dani Menkin's engaging, award-winning, informative, candid, inspirational, no-holds-barred, 75-minute, 2020 documentary that chronicles the tumultuous journey of 6'10" African-American basketball legend Aulcie Perry when he played for Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team in the 1970s, led the team to several championships, converted to Judaism, became an Israeli citizen, and changed his name to Elisha Ben Avraham only to be imprisoned in North Carolina for drug trafficking in the 1990s and later finding redemption, and it consists of archival film clips and commentary by college friend Wayne Tyre, sister Bernadine Perry-Davis, Maccabi manager Shamluk Maharovsky, former girlfriends Tami Ben-Ami and Juanita Jackson, friend Roy Young, NBA commentator Simmy Reguer, announcer Rafi Ginat, Sports Illustrated writer Alexander Wolff, son Aulcie Perry Jr., philanthropist Oudi Recanati, daughter Cierra Musungay, coach Zvi Sherf, reporter Moshe Gertel, Israeli attorney Shimon Mizrahi, and teammates Earl Williams, Tal Brody, and Shmulik Zysman.
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