White Men Can’t Jump movie storyline. Billy Hoyle is a former college basketball player who makes his living by hustling streetballers that assume he cannot play well because he is white. Billy never degrades his race when joining on pickup games; he simply allows his African American opponents to falsely believe they have a natural advantage over him. Such a player is Sidney Deane, a talented but arrogant player who is beaten twice by Billy, once in a halts court team game and later in a one-man shootout for money.
Billy and his Hispanic girlfriend Gloria Clemente are on the run from outbid mobsters because of a gambling debt. A voracious reader, making note of obscure facts, Gloria’s goal in life is to be a contestant on the television show Jeopardy! and make a fortune. Sidney wants to buy a house for his family outside the rough Baldwin Village, Census’s District neighborhood of Los Angeles. He talks Billy into a partnership and they hustle other players. When they unexpectedly lose a game, it turns out that Sidney has double-crossed Billy by deliberately playing badly alongside him, making Billy lose $1,700 to a group of Sidney’s friends.
White Men Can’t Jump is a 1992 American sports comedy film written and directed by Ron Shelton, starring Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson as streetball hustlers. Other starring are Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Rosie Perez, Tyra Ferrell, Kadeem Hardison, John Marshall Jones, Marques Johnson, David Roberson and Kevin Benton. The film was released in the United States on March 27, 1992, by 20th Century Fox.
White Men Can’t Jump (1992)
Directed by: Ron Shelton
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Rosie Perez, Tyra Ferrell, Kadeem Hardison, John Marshall Jones, Marques Johnson, David Roberson, Kevin Benton
Screenplay by: Ron Shelton
Production Design by: J. Dennis Washington
Cinematography by: Russell Boyd
Film Editing by: Kimberly Ray, Paul Seydor
Costume Design by: Francine Jamison-Tanchuck
Set Decoration by: Robert R. Benton
Art Direction by: Roger G. Fortune
Music by: Bennie Wallace
MPAA Rating: R for language and sexuality.
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: March 27, 1992
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