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Like Mike (2002)

★ 6.1 · 565 ratings on TMDB

Think like Mike, achieve like Mike, be like Mike.

Like Mike poster★ 6.1

Calvin and his friends, who all live in an orphanage, find old shoes with the faded letters MJ connected to a powerline. One stormy night, they go to get the shoes when Calvin and the shoes are struck by lightning. Calvin now has unbelievable basketball powers and has the chance to play for the NBA.

DirectorJohn Schultz
CastAnne Meara, Brenda Song, Crispin Glover, Eugene Levy, Jesse Plemons, Jonathan Lipnicki
GenresComedy, Family, Fantasy
The emergence reading

Like Mike keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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