A savvy commercial calculation that takes the sport of basketball down to its grass roots: the pickup game on the urban playground, where anyone might aspire to be a Larry Bird For A Day. Woody Harrelson, as a big fish in a small pond, is nothing if not common: the shorts below the knees; the backward-turned, adjustable-strapped, one-size-fits-all baseball cap; the four-beer facial expression. And writer-director Ron Shelton has, despite the subplot about a former go-go dancer studying up to be on Jeopardy!, sensibly cut down on the higher-flown philosophizings, cultural allusions, Norman Mailerisms, of his earlier sports film, Bull Durham. He has not cut down on the nonsensicalities of plot. With Wesley Snipes and Rosie Perez. (1992) — Duncan Shepherd
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