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The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened

The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened1977

★7.0100 minDramaTV Movie

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

Director

Writer

Peter S. Beagle

Stars

Jimmie Walker James Earl Jones Debbie Allen

Cast12

Jimmie Walker
as Morris Bird III
James Earl Jones
as Morris Bird, Jr.
Debbie Allen
as Julie Sutton
Tamu Blackwell
as Sandra Bird
Valerie Curtin
as Miss Goldfarb
Kevin Hooks
as Hoover Sissle
Sorrell Booke
as Samuelson
Darrell Zwerling
as Dr. Brimson
Sam Laws
as Horton
Harry Caesar
as Bonner
S. Pearl Sharp
as Aunt Edythe
William Traylor
as Coach

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