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White Men Can't Jump (1992) 6.7
Black and white basketball hustlers join forces to double their chances. Director:Ron SheltonWriter:Ron Shelton |
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Billy and Sydney think they're the best basketball hustlers in town, so when they join forces, nothing can stop them, except each other. To add to their problems, Billy owes money and is being chased by a pair of gangster types. Written by Rob Hartill
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
27 March 1992 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Los blancos no la saben meter See more »Box Office
Gross:
$76,253,806 (USA)Company Credits
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Written by Ron Shelton and Bennie Wallace
Performed by Aretha Franklin
Courtesy of Arista Records
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Charlie Sheen and David Duchovny both were considered for the role that went to Woody Harrelson. All three actors share the same main voice actor in German dubs: Benjamin Völz. See more »Goofs
Sydney had it backwards when he was telling Billy had he can "hear" Jimi Hendrix, actually it should be vice versa: Hearing is an involuntary process in which sound waves are transfered to the brain, Listening is the process of recognizing, understanding and interpreting what you hear. See more »Quotes
Billy Hoyle: [playing in tournament prelims-overdub] Don't let him pull that move, don't let him pull that move! That's the move! Oh that's the move!See more »
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In the opening credits, we can hear the classical 20th Century Fox Fanfare in a hip hop style. See more »Soundtracks
IF I LOSEWritten by Ron Shelton and Bennie Wallace
Performed by Aretha Franklin
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A gritty comedy set in some tough LA neighborhoods about two basketball hustlers, one white (Woody Harrelson), the other black (Wesley Snipes). After hustling each other, they finally team up to play in a tournament, where with a combination of skill and trash talk they defeat the two guys who normally would have left them in the dust. The trash talk gets silly at times, while the subplot of underworld characters who are chasing Harrelson for an unpaid debt seems to be there only to explain logically why he hustles in the first place, as if he would do something else with his life. In any event, the games go from Venice Beach to Watts, and the settings are as good as the stars. Especially so are the cheap motels where Harrelson and girlfriend Rosie Perez have to live, and the inner city apartment where Snipes and his wife Tyra Ferrel call home, all of which adds up to a realistic slice of life at the time, which now seems to look quite a bit different. Intelligently written and well photographed, it has laid in the back of the shelves at countless video stores waiting to be rediscovered.