Black and white basketball hustlers join forces to double their chances of winning money on the street courts and in a basketball tournament.Black and white basketball hustlers join forces to double their chances of winning money on the street courts and in a basketball tournament.Black and white basketball hustlers join forces to double their chances of winning money on the street courts and in a basketball tournament.
- Awards
- 6 nominations
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- TriviaWhen Woody Harrelson was making this movie, the producers hired Bob Lanier, the retired Detroit Pistons' center, as a basketball coach. Harrelson, who had played some basketball in college, was bragging to Lanier about what a great player he was. Lanier invited Harrelson to play a little one-on-one. Harrelson later described it as "the most embarrassing fifteen minutes of my life."
- GoofsBefore the second hustle game in Watts, Sidney declares the game to be "make it take it", meaning a team retains possession of the ball after scoring a basket. However, after Billy makes the first shot of the game, their opponents (Robert and Zeke) take possession of the ball.
- Quotes
Sidney Deane: [to Junior, after losing his borrowed money to Billy in a shooting challenge on the Venice Beach basketball courts] Oh man shut your anorexic malnutrition tapeworm-having overdose on Dick Gregory Bahamian diet-drinking ass up. Leave me alone!
- Crazy creditsIn the opening credits, we can hear the classical 20th Century Fox Fanfare in a hip hop style.
- Alternate versionsSome U.S. video versions are three minutes longer.
- ConnectionsEdited into White Men Can't Jump: Deleted Scene (2000)
- SoundtracksMood Indigo
Written by Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard and Irving Mills
Featured review
The Hustler of Basketball Movies
Ron Shelton does it again. He does a great job of capturing the culture of basketball hustlers and how they go from court to court hustling games and making money. He gets everything right even down to the trash talk on the court. Woody Harrelson is perfect as the n'er do well Billy and Wesley Snipes is perfect as the fast talking Sidney. This also to me is the breakout performance of Rosie Perez. Perez is perfect as Billy's kookie girlfriend Gloria. This film is definitely a classic.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $76,253,806
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $14,711,124
- Mar 29, 1992
- Gross worldwide
- $90,753,806
- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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