The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened

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

Country USA

Language English

Gnere Drama

Release Date 26 October 1977

100 mins

Cast

Jimmie Walker Morris Bird III

James Earl Jones Morris Bird, Jr.

Debbie Allen Julie Sutton

Tamu Blackwell Sandra Bird

Valerie Curtin Miss Goldfarb

Kevin Hooks Hoover Sissle

Sorrell Booke Samuelson

Darrell Zwerling Dr. Brimson

Sam Laws Horton

Harry Caesar Bonner

S. Pearl Sharp Aunt Edythe

William Traylor Coach

Crew

Director

Gilbert Moses

Writer

Peter S. Beagle

Original Writer

Donald Robertson