
The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become winners.... (Full plot summary below)
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The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become winners.
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| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelThe film with the year's funniest title turns out to be a basketball comedy about the Pittsburgh Pisces team transformed onto a winner by a young boy and an astrologer. Real-life basketball star Julius Erving stars in a trivial but entertaining picture filled with rhythm and blues pop music. |
| The New York TimesJanet MaslinIt's cheerfully inoffensive entertainment designed for the crowd that liked "Car Wash," with which one of the present film's producers was also involved, and it offers a similarly shapeless brand of merriment. |
| Washington PostGary ArnoldMoses has staged one totally abstract, contemplative sequence of Erving practicing by himself on a playground court at night. The succession of slow-motion, overlapping dissolves of Erving gliding and dunking in solitary grandeur is a rather pretty abstraction, but it seems to stylize his prowess in a misleading way. The transcendant thing about Erving is that he's capable of performing feats in competition and in real time that the rest of us only dream of doing while playing one-on-none. |
| User ReviewJoaquin Aan abolutely ridiculous movie, that had me rolling throughout |
| User ReviewLori NI can watch this movie over and over again |
| User ReviewDarrell WThe Doctor is in the house in this 70's classic. |
| User ReviewHan SThe Doctor is in the house in this 70's classic. |
| User ReviewHarrison RI AM A PISCES AND THIS TEAM IS ALL PISCES OUT OF PITTSBURGH IN 1979. I WAS A LIL GIRL WHEN I FIRST WATCHED THIS MOVIE WITH MY FAMILY. I LOVE LOVE THIS MOVIE I JUST CAN'T FIND IT NO PLACE. |
| User ReviewGary LDr J is a magician on the court as well as off. Set Shot Buford is my hero! |
| User ReviewWill EGREATEST BASKETBALL MOVIE OF ALL TIME!!!! |