Storyline
Billy Hoyle and Sidney Deane are an unlikely pair of basketball hustlers. They team up to con their way across the courts of Los Angeles, playing a game that's fast dangerous - and funny.
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Cast
Woody Harrelson, Rosie Perez, Wesley Snipes, Lanei Chapman, Cylk Cozart, Kevin Benton, John Marshall Jones, Kadeem Hardison, Duane Martin, Eloy Casados, Nigel Miguel, Tyra Ferrell, Ernest Harden Jr., Marques Johnson, David Roberson, Bill Henderson, Sonny Craver, Jon Hendricks, Frank Rossi, Freeman Williams, Louis Price, Alex Trebek, Dion B. Vines, Gregg Daniel
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Reviews
100
Snipes and Harrelson bounce off the screen like Michael Jordan, while Shelton and cinematographer Russell Boyd perfectly capture the agile thrills of the game itself. A double-whammy slam-dunker of a movie.
88
Here is a comedy of great high spirits, with an undercurrent of sadness and sweetness that makes it a lot better than the plot itself could possibly suggest.
80
Empire
It’s overly long and the Rosie Perez sub-plot leads it astray, but mostly, it rocks.
80
Smartly spreading his story beyond the end lines of the basketball court, writer-director Shelton has knocked down a sparkling, slice-of-life Americana story. As rough and shiny as chain nets on a sweltering summer day, White Men Can't Jump is a poetic, rag-tag triumph.
80
Graced with good-humored comic energy, they overcome sizable script problems and turn Ron Shelton's White Men Can't Jump into a sassy and profane urban fairy tale that finds laughs in some very clever places.
