White Men Can't Jump

Ron Shelton (Bull Durham) wrote and directed the basketball-oriented seriocomedy White Men Can't Jump. Woody Harrelson plays Billy Hoyle, a white con artist who hustles basketball games with black players, lulling his victims into the misguided notion that white men can't match up with black ...more

Ron Shelton's trash-talking comedy on the world of street hoops hustlers entertains while commenting incisively on black-white, male-female relations. The film concerns a pair of basketball hustlers, one black (Wesley Snipes) and one white (Woody Harrelson), who join forces to hustle other players on the basis of the white guy's supposed lack of "game." Every major city in the U.S. has high-quality street games, swarming with enough big-ego, sometimes big-time players, that the circuit can be ...more