You gotta believe
Mar 8, 2007 Movies
Director knew this winning story would score on film.
It has been 20 years since Robert Collector directed a film. Back in the mid-’80s he made a couple of forgettable genre pictures, but when he gained custody of his young children he decided to stick with writing screenplays so he could work at home.
Now, though, the kids are grown, and Collector has once again gotten behind the camera. The result is “Believe in Me,” a funny and emotional sports movie about a young basketball coach who finds himself running a girls high school team in ’60s Oklahoma.
“I’m the longest overnight success story around,” the 58-year-old Collector said in a phone interview from L.A. “I’m one of those lunch bucket guys who write scripts that people like but which never get made into movies. I fix other people’s scripts. I write for cable and TV. People in the industry know me, but I’m unknown to the public.”
Perhaps not for long. “Believe in Me” is one of those stand-up-and-cheer flicks that will please not only sports junkies but also an audience not usually drawn to sports movies: women.
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