White Men Can't Jump

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson star in this comedy drama written and directed by Ron Shelton. Sidney Deane (Snipes) thinks he's the hottest basketball player on the streets of down-town Los Angeles, until one day Billy Hoyle (Harrelson) wanders onto Deane's court and forces him to reconsider. The two players then proceed to fight it out, on and off the court, both against each other and on the same team, as they make and lose money in some high-stakes hoop contests. The cast also includes Rosie Perez, Tyra Ferrell and Cylk Cozart.

REVIEW
White Men Can't Jump, writer-director Ron Shelton's 1992 follow-up to the baseball comedy-drama Bull Durham, involves a different sport: basketball, as played on the neighbourhood hustler circuit. Woody Harrelson is Billy Hoyle, a good shooter using his white complexion to fool black players into thinking he can be stomped in easy bets. Billy's banter-filled matchup against Sidney Deane (Wesley Snipes) on a public court leads to a partnership in which Sidney becomes Billy's manager, taking the white outsider on a tour of the tougher sections of Los Angeles, where he plays homeboys for a few bucks. Inevitably, the two come apart over their innate competitiveness, a situation that has to be re-evaluated after Billy gets into trouble with some underworld creditors. Meanwhile, Billy's girlfriend (Rosie Perez) sits at home preparing herself for a maybe-someday appearance on Jeopardy. As with all of Shelton's sports-related films (Tin Cup, his script for The Best of Times), White Men Can't Jump is less about the fine points of the game than it is the rules by which players survive it. The script is literate and crackling with wit and satire (a scene in which a politician sponsors a black-white "solidarity" game is hilarious). The actors are entirely in sync, and the scenes under and around the hoops are a thrill to watch. --Tom Keogh,

Special Features

Bonus Footage, Bonus Tracks: 'White Men Can't Jump' music video by Riff., Trailers

Actors: Kadeem Hardison, Ernest Harden Jr, John Marshall Jones, David Roberson, Marques Johnson, Rosie Perez, Tyra Ferrell, Cylk Cozart, Woody Harrelson, Wesley Snipes

Audio Languages: English

Duration: 111 minutes

Number of Discs: 1

Subtitle Languages: English, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish

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