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Focus Features presents a film written and directed by Eddie Huang. Rated R (for language throughout including sexual references, and some drug use). Running time: 90 minutes. Opens Friday at local theaters. The second offense: basketball sequences supposedly depicting New York City high school hoops at the highest level, but nobody appears to be taller than about 6-foot-1 and the games move at a relatively slow pace, with the players appearing to be average at best. Another problem is the title character is borderline likable. He’s a basically decent kid, but he can be rude and crude and even more damning, he’s not all that interesting. Compared to Ray Allen’s Jesus Shuttlesworth in “He Got Game,” Penny Hardaway’s Butch McRae in “Blue Chips” or Duane Martin’s Kyle Lee Watson in “Above the Rim” (all real-life hoopsters playing fictional characters), Taylor Takahashi as Boogie is solid but just doesn’t have the same level of game, on
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What writer and director Eddie Huang accomplishes with Boogie is a welcome addition to a growing canon of mainstream North American films created by and starring Asians