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Personne n'aurait parié sur Jérémy et Bouna, et pourtant… ils ont réalisé leur rêve ! LE RÊVE AMÉRICAIN c'est actuellement au cinéma. Réalisé par Anthony Marciano avec Raphaël Quenard & Jean-Pascal Zadi. Inspiré de l’histoire vraie de Bouna Ndiaye et Jérémy Medjana. #LeReveAmericain #onregardequoi #JeanPascalZadi #RaphaelQuenard #histoirevrai

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🎷 When Doubt Turns Into Triumph.

In the same spirit as Frank Sinatra’s They All Laughed, Le rêve américain celebrates those who were underestimated, dismissed, or quietly mocked before proving everyone wrong. Sinatra’s swing‑light anthem about turning skepticism into victory mirrors the journey of Jérémy Medjana and Bouna Ndiaye, two French outsiders who dared to believe in a dream bigger than their circumstances. Like the song, the film shows that the sweetest successes are the ones born from perseverance — the kind that make the world’s laughter fade into applause.

🎶 🇫🇷 🏀 🚗 💫 🤝 🎬 🔥 🌍 ✨ 🎥 📈 🌟 🇺🇸 🔊 They All Laughed - Frank Sinatra

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A story of friendship, hustle, and the French agents who dared to take on the NBA.

“We never thought about giving up, even on the edge of burnout,” says Jérémy Medjana, a man who has lived his American dream wide awake.

🇫🇷✨ A dream born far from the spotlight

Le rêve américain tells the improbable rise of Jérémy Medjana and Bouna Ndiaye, founders of Comsport — the powerhouse agency behind the biggest French names in basketball: Wembanyama, Gobert, Batum, Johannès. But more than a sports saga, the film is a portrait of friendship, loyalty, and the stubborn belief that borders, backgrounds, and expectations don’t define destiny. Raphaël Quenard and Jean‑Pascal Zadi embody this duo with warmth and humor, capturing the tenderness and friction of two men who built something bigger than themselves. The film moves between laughter and emotion, showing a world where differences — Black, white, tall, short — dissolve in the shared pursuit of a dream. And in a political climate where the “American dream” feels increasingly contested, the film asks a simple question: Does the expression still mean anything today? Back in the 1990s, for two young Frenchmen with nothing but ambition and a beat‑up Ford Fiesta, it absolutely did.

🚗🏀 From a dented Ford Fiesta to the NBA

The story begins in the most unglamorous way possible: a battered Ford Fiesta belonging to a kid from Saint‑Amand, near Valenciennes. Medjana and Ndiaye hid the car during early meetings, sometimes renting a bigger sedan to look the part in a world obsessed with appearances. Their hustle was raw, improvised, and relentless. Thirty years later, Comsport is the gold standard of French basketball representation. Ndiaye now lives in Dallas, managing the French wave in the NBA. Medjana drives either a Smart in Paris or a Range Rover for the kids. Their company, once on the brink of collapse, now employs around twenty people. The numbers speak for themselves: in 2016 alone, with just four players — Batum, Mahinmi, Gobert, Fournier — Comsport negotiated 371 million dollars in NBA contracts. A long way from the days when Bouna cleaned airplanes at Orly or when Medjana worked Saturdays at his father’s video store. The film doesn’t shy away from the darker moments either. Medjana recounts a near‑fatal car accident after yet another sleepless night juggling jobs. “The firefighters told me I was a survivor,” he says. That brush with death becomes one of the film’s emotional anchors — a reminder that dreams often come with a price.

🤝💫 A film about friendship, resilience, and the courage to insist

Directed with sensitivity, Le rêve américain is less about basketball than about the invisible labor behind success: the humiliations, the doubts, the tiny victories that keep you going. Quenard brings a nervous, kinetic energy to Medjana, while Zadi grounds the film with quiet strength and humor. Together, they make the story feel lived‑in, human, and deeply French — even as it stretches across the Atlantic. The movie shines when it focuses on the bond between the two men: two friends who refuse to let go of each other, even when everything around them collapses. It’s a celebration of solidarity in a world that often rewards individualism.

🎥⭐ Review: A heartfelt, uplifting crowd‑pleaser

Le rêve américain succeeds because it never pretends the journey was glamorous. Instead, it embraces the chaos, the failures, the absurdity of two outsiders trying to break into the world’s most competitive sports league. The film is funny without being cynical, emotional without being sentimental, and inspiring without falling into cliché. Quenard and Zadi are perfectly cast, bringing charisma and vulnerability to roles that could have easily slipped into caricature. The script balances humor and heart, and the direction keeps the story grounded in real human stakes. It’s a film about ambition, yes — but above all, it’s a film about friendship as a survival strategy. And in that sense, the American dream isn’t dead. It just looks different: less about glory, more about holding on to the people who help you climb.

#FrenchHustle 🇫🇷🔥 #BasketballDream 🏀✨ #ComsportStory 🤝🌟 #AgainstAllOdds 🚗💫 #AmericanDreamFilm 🎬🇺🇸