White Men Can't Jump

Director: Ron Shelton Ron Shelton

Overview

Ron Shelton's buddy-basketball comedy White Men Can't Jump comes to DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. English and French soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital Surround. English and Spanish subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include a deleted scene that has been edited into the body of the feature, theatrical trailers, television advertisements, and a music video for Riff's "White Men Can't Jump." This is a solid release from 20th Century Fox.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/21/2002
UPC:	0024543005353
Original Release:	1992
Rating:	R
Source:	20Th Century Fox
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Full Frame, Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:55:00
Sales rank:	5,941

Special Features

Re-edited with deleted scene; Music video "White Men Can't Jump" by Riff; Theatrical trailers; TV spot; Anamorphic widescreen [aspect ratio 1.85:1]; Interactive menus; Scene selection; Languages: English Dolby surround, French Dolby surround; Subtitles: English, Spanish

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Wesley Snipes	Sidney Deane
Woody Harrelson	Billy Hoyle
Rosie Perez	Gloria Clemente
Tyra Ferrell	Rhonda Deane
Cylk Cozart	Robert
Kadeem Hardison	Junior
Ernest Harden Jr.	George
John Marshall Jones	Walter
Marques Johnson	Raymond
David Roberson	T.J.
Kevin Benton	Zeke
Nigel Miguel	Dwight `The Flight' McGhee
Duane Martin	Willie Lewis
Eloy Casados	Tony Stucci
Frank Rossi	Frank Stucci
Bill Henderson	The Venice Beach Boys Member
Sonny Craver	The Venice Beach Boys Member
Jon Hendricks	The Venice Beach Boys Member
Freeman Williams	Duck Johnson
Louis Price	Eddie `The King' Faroo
Alex Trebek	Himself
Reggie Leon	Reggie
Sarah Stavrou	Etiwanda
Reynaldo Rey	Tad
Lanei Chapman	Lanei
Irene Nettles	Real Estate Agent
Torri Whitehead	Tanya
Lisa McDowell	Alisa
David Maxwell	Malcolm
Dion B. Vines	The Bank
Bill Caplan	Tournament Announcer
Richard James Baker	Tournament Referee
Amy Golden	Big Guy's Girlfriend
Jeanette Srubar	Little Guy's Girlfriend
Zandra Hill	Sponsor,Ballplayer
Fred P. Gregory	Sponsor
Carl E. Hodge	Pickup Truck Driver
Ruben Martinez	Ruben
Gary Lazar	Oki-Dog Businessman
Donna Howell	Yolanda
Don Fullilove	Jake,Jake
Johnny Gilbert	`JEOPARDY!' Announcer,"Jeopardy!" Announcer
Leonard A. Oakland	Doctor Leonard Allen
Allan Malamud	Rocket Scientist
Jeanne McCarthy	Dressing Room Staffer
John Charles Sheehan	Cop
Carl A. McGee	Gambler
Chick Hearn	NBA Announcer
Stu Lantz	NBA Announcer
Ronald Beals	Ballplayer
Joe Metcalf	Ballplayer
Mahcoe Moore	Ballplayer
Eric Kizziee	Ballplayer
Chalmer Maddox	Ballplayer
Leroy Michaux	Ballplayer
Joseph Duffy	Ballplayer,Ballplayer
Gary Moeller	Ballplayer
Daniel Porto	Ballplayer
Jake Roberts	Ballplayer
Lester Hawkins	Ballplayer
Jeffrey Todd	Ballplayer
John Jones	Actor
Jake "The Snake" Roberts	Ballplayer
Victoria Thomas	Actor
Ernest Harden	Actor
Bennie Wallace	Composer

Technical Credits

Ron Shelton

Ron Shelton	Director,Screenwriter
David Lester	Producer,Producer
Don Miller	Producer
Michele Rappaport	Executive Producer,Producer
Victoria Thomas	Casting
Julius LeFlore	Stunts
Mike Johnson	Stunts
Kirk Francis	Sound/Sound Designer

Scene Index

Side #1 -
0. Scene Selection
1. Main Titles [4:33]
2. Talkin' Trash [4:26]
3. Who's the Chump? [2:43]
4. About Business [7:16]
5. Hustlin' [5:24]
6. Finding a Weakness [:09]
7. Love's Fool [6:31]
8. The Almighty Dollar [5:07]
9. Ethics [3:08]
10. In the Zone [3:56]
11. Accepting the Award [7:26]
12. White Men Can't Jump [7:15]
13. Win Some, Lose Some [11:10]
14. A Cross To Bear [1:17]
15. Jeopardy [1:54]
16. Gloria's Song [1:45]
17. Promises [9:01]
18. Every Dog Has His Day [2:43]
19. Sometimes You Lose... [2:28]
20. End Titles [4:45]

Menu

Side #1 -
   Play Movie
   Language Selection
      Spoken Languages: English Dolby Surround
      Spoken Languages: French Dolby Surround
      Subtitles: English
      Subtitles: Spanish
      Subtitles: None
   Special Features
      TV Spot
      Music Video: Riff "White Men Can't Jump"
      Trailer A
      Trailer B

Editorial Reviews

After going deep with Bull Durham, director Ron Shelton took it to the hole with this glimpse inside the world of basketball. This is not the glossy NBA model, or the nominally less glossy NCAA model, but the smack-talking world of street hoops in L.A., where hustlers Billy Hoyle (Woody Harrelson) and Sidney Deane (Wesley Snipes) make their livings on blacktop. Hoyle is slow, Deane is quick; Hoyle shoots better than he jumps, Deane jumps better than he shoots. First on-court rivals, then allies (although, in the Shelton tradition, trash is still talked with reckless abandon), the two try to play their way to financial success, if only to satisfy their significant others (Rosie Perez and Tyra Ferrell, respectively). While the movie's fashions haven't dated especially well, the dialogue still pops with profane life and the basketball sequences have much more zing than most NBA highlight reels. Snipes stands out as Sidney: He seems to be having a blast here, certainly more fun that he's had in the 20-or-so movies he's made since. Lively and audacious with enough spirit to make up for its lack of big bodies in the middle, White Men Can't Jump has as much game today as it ever did.

Barnes & Noble - Dave Roth

Ron Shelton's trash-talking comedy on the world of street hoops hustlers entertains while commenting incisively on black-white, male-female relations. The film concerns a pair of basketball hustlers, one black (Wesley Snipes) and one white (Woody Harrelson), who join forces to hustle other players on the basis of the white guy's supposed lack of "game." Every major city in the U.S. has high-quality street games, swarming with enough big-ego, sometimes big-time players, that the circuit can be ripe pickings for a pair of con men with a good act. With this white doofus character, based on NBA player and coach Scott Skiles and on Shelton himself, these two have a great one. The film, which captures this kind of game better than any other ever has, revels in its edginess, its intense competitiveness, and to the spiraling rituals of hilarious virtuoso verbal insults in which it's steeped. It also conveys the physical toughness of these referee-free games in which "no blood, no-foul" is the norm. In a film that constantly touches on the deceptiveness of appearances, the two partners stumble over racial stereotypes, while testing to see how far they can trust one another. For each, hustling has a different meaning: for Snipes' character, it just one of the many pursuits with which he supports his family, and for Harrelson's, it's a way of fueling his compulsive gambling. Understandably, neither of their women are too happy about having to rely on a con game, but Rosie Perez, who is hysterically funny as Harrelson's girlfriend, is at first, more tolerant. Not surprisingly, the men find that, despite their differences, they have more in common with each other than they do with their women. But given what we have learned about these men, the bittersweet ending seems inevitable.

All Movie Guide - Michael Costello