Soul In The Hole is a 1997 documentary film about aspiring basketball coach Kenny Jones, his playground dream team "Kenny's Kings," the relationship between him and his players (particularly playground phenom 18-year-old Ed "Booger" Smith) and life in Brooklyn during the summer.
It won the Independent Spirit: Truer Than Fiction Award (tied with Errol Morris' "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control")[1] and was nominated for an International Documentary Association Award (IDA).
[2] Named Top Ten Gem by Premiere Magazine; twice-named Top Ten Film and called "...The best film made about basketball--and about growing up black, male and street..." by the Village Voice .
Internationally, it was theatrically and television released in France, Germany and the UK and many other countries by Celluloid Dreams.
[3] A soundtrack containing hip hop music was released on July 29, 1997 by Loud Records, with the theme song by The WuAllStars.