
Billy and Sydney think they're the best basketball hustlers in town, so when they join forces, nothing can stop them, except each other. To add to their problems, Billy owes money and is being chased by a pair of gangster types.... (Full plot summary below)
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Billy and Sydney think they're the best basketball hustlers in town, so when they join forces, nothing can stop them, except each other. To add to their problems, Billy owes money and is being chased by a pair of gangster types.
Leave your thoughts about White Men Can't Jump.
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertHere is a comedy of great high spirits, with an undercurrent of sadness and sweetness that makes it a lot better than the plot itself could possibly suggest. |
| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelA fresh and exuberant romantic comedy that is as smart about playground basketball as Bull Durham was about minor league baseball. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversWhat Shelton fails to provide is a coherent structure; the film is wearyingly repetitive. |
| NewsweekDavid AnsenShelton's strength is character, streetwise wit and funky, lived-in sexuality. Snipes, one of our most versatile young actors, gets to demonstrate his wonderful comic chops, and Harrelson, whose goofiness is part of his scam, partners him beautifully. |
| Hollywood ReporterDuane ByrgeSmartly spreading his story beyond the end lines of the basketball court, writer-director Shelton has knocked down a sparkling, slice-of-life Americana story. As rough and shiny as chain nets on a sweltering summer day, White Men Can't Jump is a poetic, rag-tag triumph. |
| The Associated PressDelores BarclayIt’s overly long and the Rosie Perez sub-plot leads it astray, but mostly, it rocks. |
| Hartford CourantMalcolm JohnsonShelton is clever, and he obviously loves sports and beautiful women and even Los Angeles. Yet when it comes to telling a story, he can't seem to hit this time around. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanPerhaps the first sports movie ever made in which the characters talked as good a game as they played. |
| Nitrate OnlineDan LybargerEpisodic by enjoyable. Rosie Perez steals this one. |
| eFilmCritic.comBrian MckayA hilarious white-black buddy comedy that manages to not feel completely contrived. Snipes is excellent. |