Black and white basketball hustlers join forces to double their chances of winning money on the street courts and in a basketball tournament.Black and white basketball hustlers join forces to double their chances of winning money on the street courts and in a basketball tournament.Black and white basketball hustlers join forces to double their chances of winning money on the street courts and in a basketball tournament.
- Awards
- 6 nominations
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- TriviaWhen Woody Harrelson was making this movie, the producers hired Bob Lanier, the retired Detroit Pistons' center, as a basketball coach. Harrelson, who had played some basketball in college, was bragging to Lanier about what a great player he was. Lanier invited Harrelson to play a little one-on-one. Harrelson later described it as "the most embarrassing fifteen minutes of my life."
- GoofsBefore the second hustle game in Watts, Sidney declares the game to be "make it take it", meaning a team retains possession of the ball after scoring a basket. However, after Billy makes the first shot of the game, their opponents (Robert and Zeke) take possession of the ball.
- Quotes
Sidney Deane: [to Junior, after losing his borrowed money to Billy in a shooting challenge on the Venice Beach basketball courts] Oh man shut your anorexic malnutrition tapeworm-having overdose on Dick Gregory Bahamian diet-drinking ass up. Leave me alone!
- Crazy creditsIn the opening credits, we can hear the classical 20th Century Fox Fanfare in a hip hop style.
- Alternate versionsSome U.S. video versions are three minutes longer.
- ConnectionsEdited into White Men Can't Jump: Deleted Scene (2000)
- SoundtracksMood Indigo
Written by Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard and Irving Mills
Featured review
Very Funny!
After repeated viewing I still find this movie hilarious. I think to appreciate this movie you have to have a love for basketball from a schoolyard sense. I have seen this kind of play myself with the entire trash-talking going on. The basic concept is people who can't get control their lives the way they wanted, but know they can control the outcome of a basketball game because of their skills. The movie is funny without being stupid. I would recommend any basketball fan watch this movie.
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- mmoore
- Apr 5, 1999
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $76,253,806
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $14,711,124
- Mar 29, 1992
- Gross worldwide
- $90,753,806
- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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