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Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New Orleans and rigging a boxing match. Using hypnotism, they turn the scrawny underdog into a super-confident fighting machine. They bet heavily on him, he wins easily, and they return to Atlanta with their money. All is fine until the gangsters conned by these two figure out what happened show up in Atlanta with a grudge. Now Williams and Foster have to rig the fight again so the gangsters can get their money back or they'll be killed. Can they do it again...? Written by
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It's the same two dudes from "Uptown Saturday Night"...but this time they're back with kid dyn-o-mite!
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Trivia
John Amos, who plays Kansas City Mack, would go on to play Jimmy Walker's father in the television show "Good Times".
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Quotes
Billy Foster:
[
singing off-key]
Oh Champ! We loves you, yes we do. Oh Champ! We loves you whether you wiiiiiin or loooooose! Oh Champ! Oh Champ! We loves you thiiiiick aaaand
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sings low]
Billy Foster:
thiiiiiin!
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Normal voice]
Billy Foster:
Get down. Get down.
Ellison:
[
Turns to Bootney's guards]
Call the police.
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Connections
Referenced in
Men Without Jobs (2004)
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Soundtracks
I Want To Thank You
Written by
Curtis Mayfield
Performed by the
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I've seen this movie along with Uptown Saturday Night countless times and, this one being the better of the two, and I still crack up. Bill & Sidney are great together and it's a shame they haven't collaborated since the 70's.
Jimmy Walker is simply "down right NAYISTEE!! with laughs".
I'm waiting for the DVD.