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A comical pair of basketball hustlers--Sidney (Wesley Snipes) and Billy (Woody Harrelson)--join forces to run a risky con game on the toughest courts of Los Angeles. However, things aren't all fun and games when the boys run afoul of a group of gangsters. Snipes and Harrelson reunited for MONEY TRAIN in 1995, although the film .. Read more

Starring Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Rosie Perez, Tyra Ferrell
Director Ron Shelton
Genres Comedy

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White Men Can't Jump

A comical pair of basketball hustlers--Sidney (Wesley Snipes) and Billy (Woody Harrelson)--join forces to run a risky con game on the toughest courts of Los Angeles. However, things aren't all fun and games when the boys run afoul of a group of gangsters. Snipes and Harrelson reunited for MONEY TRAIN in 1995, although the film wasn't actually a sequel to this one.

Starring Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Rosie Perez, Tyra Ferrell, Kadeem Hardison, Cylk Cozart, Ernest Harden, John Marshall Jones
Director Ron Shelton
Studio 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 51 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 15.gif
Genres Comedy
Language English
Hearing-impaired English
Subtitles Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish
Released DVD: 06 Oct 2003
Production year: 1992
Format DVD

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    Writer/director Ron Shelton is that rare beast: someone who can make movies with wit, warmth and perception about American sports. This is a marvellous tale about two basketball players (Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson) who make their living hustling fellow street players around Los Angeles. The plot is fairly simplistic, but the pleasure comes from Shelton's fizzing foul-mouthed dialogue, the charismatic performances of the two stars and the superbly choreographed basketball sequences. And, as an added bonus, even Rosie Perez, as Harrelson's girlfriend, manages to stay the right side of irritating.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • "...Snipes, it's clear, is going to be a very big star. Fiercely magnetic, with the insinuating velvet sexiness of a matinee idol....He also has an actor's awareness..."

    • Entertainment Weekly
    • Posted 11 Mar 2005

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  • 6 out of 6 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    White Men Can Jump

    This film hooks you from the 1st scene to the last. With its wit and dark sense of humour. Harrelson and Snipes are perfect together and both pull off their roles brilliantly.

    Feeding of each other like morcambe and wise tthey go on the trail of the big prize ... The Basketball shootout tournament. Hustling everyone and each other along the way.

    By the end of the film yourribs hurt from laughing so much.

    This is a must see

      • A customer from Boston, England
      • Posted 20 Jul 2004 08:38

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    Good Film, worth watching. Can't beat a good hussle. Apparently Woody Harrison could have taken a carry in Basketball, so it is woody & wesley playing and shooting themselves.

      • Tim#16 from WALSALL
      • Posted 24 Feb 2004 11:36

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    Harrelson owes Keanu Reeves for his movie career

    • 17 Nov 2009

    Woody Harrelson feared he'd never land another acting role after playing bartender Woody Boyd in sitcom Cheers for eight years - and he credits Keanu Reeves with helping him land his big screen break. Harrelson made his name playing a simpleton bartender in the hit comedy, but when the show ended he admits he was left in the showbiz wilderness. He eventually landed the lead role playing a basketball hustler in 1992 movie White Men Can't Jump, after Reeves was ruled out - because he lacked the... Read more

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      • A comical pair of basketball hustlers--Sidney (Wesley Snipes) and Billy (Woody Harrelson)--join forces to run a risky con game on the toughest courts of Los Angeles. However, things aren't all fun ...