White Men Can't Jump

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Studio: 20th Century Fox
Rating: R
Running Time: 115 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
A hustler and a street ball player join forces to run a basketball con game.
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Sidney Deane
Billy Hoyle
Gloria Clemente
Rhonda Deane
Robert
Raymond
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April 18, 2001
Pickup basketball in L.A., choreo-graphed by writer-director Ron Shelton (Bull Durham) from the first dunk shot to the last hissed "muthafucka," inspires a series of comic riffs between Sidney (Wesley Snipes), the black hoop master, and Billy (Woody Harrelson), the nerdy white boy who cons him. Snipes and Harrelson are natural athletes as well as actors, and their raunchy byplay has a muscular poetry.

Shelton also provides parts for two feisty actresses -- Tyra Ferrell, as Sidney's no-bull wife,… Continued