Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Helllins It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

bnevs18 This is basically a piece about the filmmaker, his passion for Kansas basketball, his tons of money, and his ego. He sort of claims ownership of basketball and the document for himself and Kansas. This isn't really a film like so many other of the 30 for 30s (focusing on the connection between sports and humanity), but a way for a rich Kansas fan to stroke his ego. Complete waste of time.

delfearo Recently a load of episodes of 30 for 30 have been on TV. I started watching this episode "No Place like Home" half expecting to turn it off way before the end as the premise sounded pretty boring: the original rules of basketball, created by Dr. Naismith were coming up for auction at Sotheby's and the filmmaker, Josh Swade, a huge Kansas University basketball fan decided that they belonged there.Well I was captivated enough to watch till the end, and motivated as a result to write this review. So clearly I found the episode "entertaining", although I am left with a very sour taste in my mouth.Basically Josh acts as if his life's work is to convince some sucker to pay millions of dollars for a piece of paper, so he can donate it to this University. All because he really likes this University's basketball team. Oh not to mention that this University didn't exactly support his pathetic crusade. This vanity project has very little to do with sport or history but everything to with how much Joshy boy loves this team. After you're introduced to the ridiculous level of fandom that this moron has achieved you have to wonder if there's a history of mental illness in his family.There are 3 chaps he actually tricks into appearing in his documentary, only after they are on camera does he tell the whole truth that he basically wants them to spend their money to buy a piece of paper for him. To their credit the gentlemen respond to this deceit and arrogance with more class that what I ever could.The 3rd bloke he begs must have a lot more money than sense, as he agrees that thee holy rules of basketball scrawled upon thy sacred paper belong in the Church of Jayhawks in Kansas. In seriousness the auction itself was tense and incredible, I couldn't believe the bidding war.Major Spoiler alert: Josh and his new extremely rich best friend win the auction, donate the rules to KU and the world keeps turning… World peace has not been attained, there are still millions on food stamps.. but a billionaire just paid over $4million on a piece of paper to give to an incredibly wealthy university. And most importantly: Josh Swade has been shown to be the best KU basketball fan of all time.

MartinHafer I know that my review will probably offend some folks, but my summary is exactly how I feel about this episode of "30 for 30". Now I LOVE this series---and have enjoyed dozens of the shows. BUT, I can't think of a single film in the series that elicited such a strong reaction in me.Recently the original rules of basketball that were created by Dr. Naismith were coming up for auction at Sotheby's. Not surprisingly, they were expected to fetch a huge price. Now here is where it gets weird. A totally fanatical University of Kansas fan has helped the filmmaker of "There's No Place Like Home". His cause? To do everything he can to guarantee that the University of Kansas becomes the possessor of these rules. There's SOME logic behind this. Dr. Naismith was the first coach of the university's basketball program and he worked at KU for a long time. BUT, here's the problem for me....who cares?! You see this nut traveling all across America and using a TON of his energy begging for donations. Couldn't he have spent his time more wisely--such as tutoring some illiterate inner-city kid or cutting a disabled person's lawn?! And, couldn't the donors have used their money to make a difference--like curing some deadly disease?! To me, sports are okay....but there needs to be SOME perspective. This guy seems to say that the worst thing in the world would be for these rules to go to Duke. What about chemical weapons or famine?! This film, probably unintentionally, makes one of the best arguments for why we really DON'T need professional or college sports! The show was well-made but who cares? Focusing so much on this one man seemed to make the show about him and not much more. A rare misstep for this great show.

Michael_Elliott 30 for 30: There's No Place Like Home (2012) **** (out of 4) Incredibly fun documentary about the auction of James Naismith's original, two-page notes with the rules of basketball. A die-hard Kansas Jayhawks fan finds out that these legendary papers are going to be auctioned off so he heads out to try and find someone to come up with the millions to win them and return them to Kansas. Josh Swade is that fans name and I must admit that I thought he was downright crazy but in an incredibly good way. Coming from Kentucky in understand people like Josh because there are many fans here who would do whatever they could for their school. I think if you're not a fan of sports then you'll probably be confused by everything in this film but those who understand the passion should love it. The entire film was just one incredibly tense journey as Josh tries to get someone to cough up millions of dollars to get this document. We see him interview boosters, former Kansas coaches like Roy Williams and Larry Brown and then things take a sharp turn as more supporting players come in. The auction sequence is without question one of the most tense moments you're going to see from any documentary and the entire film is a just a tremendous ride. The Kansas Hall of Fame should certainly put this movie on display and I'm sure that the Duke hatred will grow even deeper. Any sport fan certainly owes it to themselves to check this film out as it's one of the best out there.