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White Men Can't Jump (1992)

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Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 39
Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 9

White Men Can't Jump provides a fresh take on the sports comedy genre, with a clever script and a charismatic trio of leads.

Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 2

White Men Can't Jump provides a fresh take on the sports comedy genre, with a clever script and a charismatic trio of leads.

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Ron Shelton (Bull Durham) wrote and directed the basketball-oriented seriocomedy White Men Can't Jump. Woody Harrelson plays Billy Hoyle, a white con artist who hustles basketball games with black players, lulling his victims into the misguided notion that white men can't match up with black hoopsters. One of his victims, African-American Sidney Deane (Wesley Snipes), becomes Hoyle's "agent," arranging his various inner city scams. Deane doesn't feel as though he's selling out his own people; he

R, 1 hr. 55 min.

Drama, Comedy

Directed By: Ron Shelton

In Theaters: Mar 27, 1992 Wide

On DVD: Aug 14, 2001

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

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Cast

Woody Harrelson
Billy Hoyle
Wesley Snipes
Sidney Deane
Rosie Perez
Gloria Clemente
Tyra Ferrell
Rhonda Deane
Cylk Cozart
Robert
Kadeem Hardison
Junior
Ernest Harden Jr.
George
John Marshall Jones
Walter
Marques Johnson
Raymond
David Roberson
T.J.
Kevin Benton
Zeke
Richard James Baker
Tournament Referee
Ronald Beals
Ballplayer
Bill Caplan
Tournament Announcer
Eloy Casados
Tony Stucci
Lanei Chapman
Lanei
Sonny Craver
Venice Beach Boys Membe...
Pete Duffy
Ballplayer
Donald Fullilove
Jake
Amy Golden
Big Guy's Girlfriend
Fred P. Gregory
Sponsor
Lester Hawkins
Ballplayer
Chick Hearn
NBA Announcer
Bill Henderson
Venice Beach Boys Membe...
Jon Hendricks
Venice Beach Boys Membe...
Mark Hill
Ballplayer
Zandra Hill
Sponsor
Carl E. Hodge
Pickup Truck Driver
Donna Howell
Yolanda
John Christopher Jones
Eric Kizziee
Ballplayer
Stu Lantz
NBA Announcer
Gary Lazar
Oki-Dog Businessman
Reggie Leon
Reggie
Chalmer Maddox
Ballplayer
Allan Malamud
Rocket Scientist
Duane Martin
Willie Lewis
Rub�n Martinez
Ruben
David Maxwell
Malcolm
Jeanne McCarthy
Dressing Room Staffer
Lisa McDowell
Alisa
Carl A. McGee
Gambler
Joe Metcalf
Ballplayer
Leroy Michaux
Ballplayer
Nigel Miguel
Dwight "The Flight" McG...
Gary Moeller
Ballplayer
Mahcoe Moore
Ballplayer
Irene Nettles
Real Estate Agent
Leonard A. Oakland
Dr. Leonard Allen
Daniel Porto
Ballplayer
Louis Price
Eddie "The King" Faroo
Reynaldo Rey
Tad
Jake "The Snake" Roberts
Ballplayer
Frank Rossi
Frank Stucci
John Charles Sheehan
Cop
Jeanette Srubar
Little Guy's Girlfriend
Sarah Stavrou
Etiwanda
Jeffrey Christopher Todd
Ballplayer
Alex Trebek
Himself
Dion B. Vines
The Bank
Torri Whitehead
Tanya
Freeman Williams
Duck Johnson
Victoria Thomas
John Gilbert
"Jeopardy!" Announcer

Critic Reviews for White Men Can't Jump

All Critics (39) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (33) | Rotten (9) | DVD (11)

This picture is packed with fun, but it doesn't really go anywhere.

March 25, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

This film unfolds in an uncommonly sweet, harmonious climate, one in which rude remarks are the sine qua non of friendship. And that benign atmosphere becomes a large part of its charm.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Janet Maslin

New York Times

Top Critic

What Shelton fails to provide is a coherent structure; the film is wearyingly repetitive.

May 12, 2001 Comment

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Top Critic

For the most part, it's a provocative one-on-one between racial opposites Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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Desson Thomson

Washington Post

Top Critic

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.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Top Critic

This is one director who loves words, and what a rare thing that is.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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Hal Hinson

Washington Post

Top Critic

Hustlin' hoops tale with too much skin for kids.

December 18, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Heather Boerner

Common Sense Media

Even basketball-phobes will enjoy it.

July 31, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4

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Film4

Succeeds only intermittently.

March 25, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide

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TV Guide's Movie Guide

A double-whammy slam-dunker of a movie.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out

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Stephen Garrett

Time Out

Amusing and fun.

June 2, 2004 Comment

Luke Y. Thompson

New Times

Episodic by enjoyable. Rosie Perez steals this one.

April 30, 2004 Comment

Dan Lybarger

Nitrate Online

A pretty terrific and very different kind of sports comedy.

October 2, 2003 Comment

Rob Thomas

Capital Times (Madison, WI)

Rosie Perez steals the movie from the two male leads

July 18, 2003 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Spirituality and Practice

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Classic Hollywood comic drama affair, with Ali G like humour - "is it cos I is white?". Snipes and Harrelson have a great chemistry that make for fun basketball hustling scenes with the slick dialogue.

December 3, 2011

Ross Collins

Super Reviewer

Pretty much a film with nothing but reverse racism throughout. 2 Stars

June 22, 2011

Bruce Bruce

Super Reviewer

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