Semi-Pro
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- Synopsis
- The American Basketball Association is on the verge of collapse, and when a former NBA benchwarmer returns to his hometown of Flint, MI, to whip his former team into shape for the playoffs, redemption is just a free throw away in this period sports ......
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- Director(s)
- Kent Alterman
- Distributor(s)
- New Line
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 90 min.
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Very much in the tradition of "Slap Shot," George Roy Hill's raucously funny and foul-mouthed 1977 laffer about the misadventures of a minor-league hockey team, Semi-Pro scores big laughs with the rowdy play-by-play of hard-luck hoopsters struggling for professional survival.Read the full review
Semi-Pro finds the sweet spot between sports melodrama and parody, and hammers it for 90 diverting minutes.Read the full review
The problem with Semi-Pro is that it keeps forgetting it's a parody of sports movies; the final scenes are supposed to be uplifting (sort of) but they're not fooling anyone. The film's much better when it just lets the guys gas and sass each other.Read the full review
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