Fast Break (1979) on Netflix
David Greene, a Brooklyn delicatessen manager who dreams of coaching, takes a job at a small Nevada college. He recruits Hustler, D.C., Preacher and Swish, who poses as a man to play.
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Plot summary
David Greene plays pickup basketball in Brooklyn and runs a delicatessen, but what he wants is to coach. His wife Jan wants a house and a family, and his letters to colleges go nowhere. Then Cadwallader University, a small Nevada school, offers him its men's team: sixty dollars for every win and a bigger contract if he can beat Nevada State, one of the country's top teams. Jan stays behind. David brings in Hustler, a pool shark; Preacher, who needs to leave town; D.C., a former high school star who runs numbers; and Swish, a sharp shooter who agrees to pass as a man. On campus he looks for a fifth player and finds Bull.
Cast
- Mavis Washingtonas Swish
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Fast Break (1979)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Columbia's promotion for Fast Break sent out a press release pretending the fictional Cadwallader University was real, complete with a phone number and return address in Bunkerville, Nevada, and honorary degrees for Vice President Walter Mondale, singer Dolly Parton and businessman Henry Ford II. Columbia admitted the hoax only after journalists, state officials and prospective students started asking questions.
- Fast Break was Gabe Kaplan's big-screen debut, after earlier appearances on television sitcoms and movies, and was one of the first film appearances of Laurence Fishburne.
