It examines the love/hate relationship towardsDuke University basketball playerChristian Laettner, and explores five factors which the film-makers believe explain the widespread and persistent hatred: privilege, race, bullying, greatness, and physical appearance.[2][3] It is narrated byRob Lowe.[4]
The A.V. Club called it a "too cute approach to one of college basketball's greatest villains" whileVariety praised it as "an amusing, affectionate and quite informative look at the hostility directed at the Duke basketball star of the early 1990s."[5][6]