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1992

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

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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

  

  Semi-Pro

  • 26 Feb 2008

  Will Ferrell, he got game. But his impressive winning streak could be petering out if this lukewarm basketball comedy is all he has left in the tank. He plays 70s one-hit wonder Jackie Moon. His disco-funk anthem "Love Me Sexy" was such a hit it enabled him to buy his own basketball team, the Flint Tropics. Not only is he the owner, he's also the team's power forward - just one of the reasons they're firmly in last spot in the amateur American Basketball Association standings. When the ABA... Read more

  

  The Other Woody

  • 06 Aug 2007

  'I'm not naïve, I'm superficial,' Woody Harrelson declares in Paul Schrader's new film, The Walker. Some people would suggest the actor has it the wrong way round. After all, he first planted himself in the public eye playing the dumbest jock on television in eight seasons of the sitcom Cheers. I've met Harrelson twice. The first time he was promoting Natural Born Killers, and I was impressed with how honestly he discussed his own anger issues. He talked about Jung and the need to explore your Read more

  

  Kaos for Snipes

  • 13 Jul 2006

  Wesley Snipes' (New Jack City, Undisputed, White Men Can't Jump) affection for a spot of vampire bashing appears undaunted, with news that his latest project will see him tooling up with the obligatory garlic, stakes, silver bullets and assorted other paraphernalia in another battle with the undead. The action star, whose distaste for creatures of the night became evident over the course of three Blade films, has signed up for Andrew Goth's Gallowwalker. Gallowwalker will see Snipes take on the Read more

  

  Snipes riled

  • 21 Dec 2004

  Wesley Snipes, the all-action star of the vampire-crushing Blade franchise, may have bitten off more than he can chew with the news that he is to take on one of the world's biggest and richest cities in the law courts. The actor, who soared to fame with his fast-talking turn in the basketball buddy flick White Men Can't Jump, has revealed he is suing the city of New York in relation to an arrest warrant issued against him during an ongoing paternity case. According to the lawsuit, Snipes claims 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 and games when the boys run afoul of a group of gangsters. Snipes and Harrelson reunited for MONEY ...

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