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The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
Sloppy and amateurish basketball comedy about the precision teamwork of an all-Pisces professional ball club. You wonder why Julius (Dr. J) Erving, in a sullen acting debut, couldn't have taken the director aside and given him a few pointers on the game: "Hey coach, listen up and listen good. Don't you know the man don't shoot no free throws on no offensive foul?" The unexciting basketball action seems to be choreographed purely for the benefit of the soundtrack album: you watch as the home team, trailing by eight points, reels off about twelve consecutive dunk shots, and then, when the accompanying music dies down, you are dumbstruck to find out that there is one second to play in the game and the home team is still behind by one point. With Stockard Channing and Jonathan Winters; directed by Gilbert Moses. 1979.
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MPAA Rating: PG
