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White Men Can't Jump

It ain't easy being this good.

1992 · 1h 55m · R Comedy, Drama
Directed by Ron Shelton

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Two street basketball hustlers try to con each other, then team up for a bigger score.

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77%
Tomatometer
Fresh

A fresh and exuberant romantic comedy that is as smart about playground basketball as Bull Durham was about minor league baseball.

Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune
Fresh

They're black and white instead of fat and thin, but Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson have the makings of a classic comedy team, the Laurel and Hardy of the half-court game.

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Fresh

Harrelson's performance is rich, subtle, and delicately funny. And Snipes is just amazing: everything he does seems to leap off the screen.

Terrence Rafferty, New Yorker
Fresh

White Man Can't Jump is most effective at the beginning -- when it's bouncing along with the exuberance that Shelton brought to such other sports-minded movies as Bull Durham and The Best of Times.

Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
Rotten

Despite charismatic performances by Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes as nothing-but- net shooters who might be called the Schmo and the Bro, White Men Can't Jump throws up mostly bricks.

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer

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