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Sunshine Kings - Season 1

Series: Sunshine Kings
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Episodes
4
Rating
TVMA
Year
2017
Language
English
Publisher
Fremantle

About

Jacob Garanga lives in the humble Melbourne suburb of Sunshine. Despite his poor upbringing, he is a very talented basketballer with dreams of climbing his Biblical namesake's ladder to heaven: the American National Basketball Association (NBA). Running parallel to Jacob's sporting aspirations and life within Sunshine's South Sudanese community is a high-stakes criminal investigation. Police are hunting down the perpetrator of a violent assault, which has left a young teenage girl from the prestigious suburb of Templestowe in a coma fighting for her life.

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Episodes

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1. Shadow Man

48m

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Santino steals a Porsche and takes his teammates Jacob, Deng Deng, and Dazzler for a joyride. But, by the end of the night, a young teenage girl will be lying in a hospital bed fighting for her life and the four joyriders become the primary suspects.

2. Dark Knight

53m

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As Jacob returns the stolen Porsche on the night in question, he is startled by the sudden appearance of Elly Messina in the headlights. She gets in and blackmails him. Caught in an impossible bind, Jacob has no choice but to comply.

3. Find Your Man

52m

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Eddie is the king of Sunshine, coaching the team on a winning streak into the finals - keeping Jacob's US College basketball dream alive. Their relationship turns sour, however, when Jacob receives a VHS tape of Eddie on a racist tirade.

4. Jacob's Ladder

52m

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Relations between Jacob and Eddie remain strained amid premiership celebrations in Sunshine. The arrival in town of a talent scout from the US convinces Eddie that he must face up to the mistake from his past in order to heal the wounded Jacob.

Extended Details

  • Closed CaptionsEnglish

Artists

Samuel Monroe Jr.actor
Emanuel K. Weatherspoonactor
Anthony Thomasactor