BASEketball (1998)
Two losers from Milwaukee, Coop & Remer, invent a new game playing basketball, using baseball rules. When the game becomes a huge success, they, along with a billionaire's help, form the Professional Baseketball League where everyone gets the same pay and no team can change cities. Theirs is the only team standing in the way of major rule changes that the owner of a rival team wants to institute.
BASEketball (1998)
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Released Year: 1998
Runtime: 103 minutes
Directors: David Zucker
Casts: Greg Grunberg, Kevin Michael Richardson, Dan Patrick, Bob Costas, Jim Lampley, Trey Parker, Jenny McCarthy, Dian Bachar, Ernest Borgnine, Reggie Jackson, Matt Stone, Ray Xifo, Robert Vaughn, Francis X. McCarthy, Joey Diaz, Victoria Silvstedt, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Cory Oliver, Al Michaels, Pat O'Brien, Robert Stack, Yasmine Bleeth, Trevor Einhorn, Kenny Mayne, Tim McCarver, Dale Earnhardt, Micah McCain, Blair Besten, Richard Johnson, Michael Matthys, Jill Gascoine
IMDB: BASEketball (1998)
Storyline
Two losers from Milwaukee, Coop & Remer, invent a new game playing basketball, using baseball rules. When the game becomes a huge success, they, along with a billionaire's help, form the Professional Baseketball League where everyone gets the same pay and no team can change cities. Theirs is the only team standing in the way of major rule changes that the owner of a rival team wants to institute.
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Reviews
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Austin Chronicle -
Sick, twisted, and very funny, Parker and Stone have arrived. Again.
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) -
The pop-culture answer to a murder-suicide, the kind of flick that serves itself up as the object of its own satire.
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Chicago Reader -
I was bored well before the end, but found the first half hour pretty funny.
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The New York Times -
Essentially two movies stuck together like chewing gum on a subway platform. One is a dumber-than-dumb teen comedy crammed with farcical sight-gags and raunchy adolescent humor, the other a no-holds-barred satire of professional sports, and the greed, egotism and pomposity surrounding them.
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ReelViews -
When I watch a comedy, I want it either to present endearing characters in fun situations or to make me laugh frequently. BASEketball accomplishes neither objective.
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Two losers from Milwaukee, Coop & Remer, invent a new game playing basketball, using baseball rules. When the game becomes a huge success, they, along with a billionaire's help, form the Professional Baseketball League where everyone gets the same pay and no team can change cities. Theirs is the only team standing in the way of major rule changes that the owner of a rival team wants to institute.
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