White Men Can't Jump (1992) on Netflix
Billy Hoyle hustles streetballers who think a white player cannot beat him. Sidney Deane, twice beaten by him, proposes a partnership. Billy owes the Stucci brothers, and Gloria wants a fortune.
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- IMDb6.8/10104,646 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes77%
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Plot summary
Billy Hoyle played basketball at Tulane and now makes his living hustling streetballers who size him up as an easy mark. Sidney Deane is a cocky streetball talent who loses to Billy twice in a row. Billy's girlfriend Gloria Clemente wants a place on the game show Jeopardy and the fortune that could follow. The Stucci brothers are after Billy over a gambling debt, so he and Gloria keep moving from place to place. Sidney, who wants to move his family out of the rough Baldwin Village neighborhood, proposes that he and Billy hustle together, with Billy set up as the teammate other players underestimate.
Cast
- Nigel Miguelas Dwight 'The Flight' McGhee
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about White Men Can't Jump (1992)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Bob Lanier, a Detroit Pistons and Milwaukee Bucks player and Hall of Famer, was hired as the basketball coach for the film and the cast attended an intensive month-long camp; he believed Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes both had the skill of Division II college players, and noted Harrelson was the better player.
- The character of Gloria was originally conceived as "an upper-class white girl at Smith or Barnard who runs away with a bad boy", but Rosie Perez left a lasting impression on Shelton when she said she could not audition because she was "having a bad hair day", and he reconfigured the character to cast her.
- Marques Johnson, who plays Raymond, was a star player for UCLA's 1974-75 national championship team coached by John Wooden and later played for the NBA's Bucks, Clippers and Warriors; he says former NBA player Reggie Harding was the inspiration for Raymond.
- Freeman Williams, who played "Duck" Johnson, had a distinguished NBA career with the Clippers, Jazz and Bullets from 1978 to 1986, and NBA player Gary Payton made an uncredited appearance as an unidentified street baller.
- The category "Foods that start with the letter Q" was an actual category on an October 1997 episode of Jeopardy!
