OT - basketball movies

[DLH17]

Glory Road
Hoosiers
Coach Carter
White Men Can't Jump

TV: The White Shadow

[doubleringer]

Hoosiers is always going to get top billing for me, but Fastbreak is right up there. I was disappointed with Glory Road. Great story, but I didn't think the movie was well done. I was extremely annoyed with how they made the game scenes look like today's game.

[Judtech]

YES another Fast Break fan!! The scene in the station wagon where Kaplan and the players have a large bag of "smoking foliage" when a cop appears behind them and they eat it. Very funny!!
(Ok that was my Chris Farley "Remember that one time in Terminator you said "Ill be back"? That was awesome...!!!)

[Mark Padgett]

There was a MS basketball scene in the movie "The Temp" starring Timothy Hutton. It was filmed here in Portland in 1993. I only mention it because my brother-in-law Jim was one of the referees in the scene. He was a PE teacher at the school where it was filmed and they talked him into appearing in the scene. Unfortunately, he didn't receive screen credit.

In retrospect, I wish he would have referred them to me, especially since Lara Flynn Boyle was in the movie. Oh yeah, there probably were some hot moms there, too.

[Mark Padgett]

The Basketball Diaries is showing on TV here in Portland tonight on the local Fox channel. Anybody out there have any info on the two guys who played the referees in the movie - Nick Gaetani and Lawrence Barth?

[Rufus]

Good: agree with what's been posted so far

Bad: Blue Chips. Just awful.

[Corndog89]

"The Basketball Diaries". Depressing as hell, but I thought it was Leonardo DiCaprio's best performance ever. A bit off topic, but is he the new John Travolta in that his movies (and performances) are either really, really good, or really, really bad?

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Originally Posted by Rufus

Good: agree with what's been posted so far

Bad: Blue Chips. Just awful.

I know people say that, but why do you think that?

[ODJ]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

The Basketball Diaries is showing on TV here in Portland tonight on the local Fox channel. Anybody out there have any info on the two guys who played the referees in the movie - Nick Gaetani and Lawrence Barth?

Great book.

"Inside Moves" David Morse works as a bartender, ends up playing for GS Warriors. Barry Levinson directed.
"Fast Break" I have it on VHS somewhere.
"Drive, He Said" Jack Nicholson and Karen Black, if only b/c it features Mac Court in its original form.
"One On One"