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.
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- 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
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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.
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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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