After years of being delayed since its 2008 production, Tim Story's 'Hurricane Season,' which stars Oscar winner Forest Whitaker, is finally being released on DVD this week.

Written by Robert Eisele, the film also marks rapper Lil' Wayne's film debut and features Taraji P. Henson, Robbie Jones, Bonnie Hunt, Isaiah Washington, Bow Wow, Michael Gaston, Courtney B. Vance and Joshua Byers.

Based on a true story and set a year after Hurricane Katrina, Al Collins (Whitaker), a high school basketball coach in Louisiana, assembles a team of players who previously attended different schools before the disaster and leads them on a path to the state championships.

In a Los Angeles Times article, Weinstein Company senior executive David Glasser claims that the movie's well-publicized financial issues had nothing to do with the decision regarding the release of the film. "It's a very tough marketplace and unfortunately the film did not test well. It was in the best interest of the financial returns on the picture to go straight to video."