Samuel L. Jackson
Rev. Fred Sultan
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- This surprisingly humorous satire targets racism, specifically in professional boxing, and showcases how it has been packaged and sold back to the population to divide, entertain, and enflame emotions, all with the goal of making the biggest profit for whoever is doing the selling.
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The Great White Hype is a 1996 American sports comedy film directed by Reginald Hudlin. It stars Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Berg, Damon Wayans, Jeff Goldblum, Jon Lovitz, Cheech Marin, John Rhys-Davies, Salli Richardson and Jamie Foxx.
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The Great White Hype: Directed by Reginald Hudlin. With Samuel L. Jackson, Jeff Goldblum, Peter Berg, Corbin Bernsen. The boxing champ's promoter thinks change is needed. He finds the one man who's beaten his champ, a white man now in a rock band.
- (11K)
- Comedy, Sport
- Reginald Hudlin
- 1996-05-03
May 3, 1996 · The Great White Hype. Comedy. 91 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1996. Roger Ebert. May 3, 1996. 3 min read. “The Great White Hype” is like a runner who leads for the first part of the race and then runs out of gas. It starts out well, as a wicked satire on professional boxing, and then loses its energy, tires of juggling its characters and ends so ...
The Great White Hype. Boxing promoter the Rev. Fred Sultan (Samuel L. Jackson) decides the best way to revive public interest in his top client's matches is to create a white challenger to his...
- (24)
- Reginald Hudlin
- R
- Samuel L. Jackson
Meet Reverend Fred Sultan. He's a flamboyant con man, hustler, and consummate promoter who rules over the modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah better known as Las Vegas. His kingdom is the realm of the fistic arts... the sweet science... the carnival of carnage... the ballet of blood.
- Reginald Hudlin
- Art Evans
The Great White Hype. Summaries. The boxing champ's promoter thinks, change is needed. He finds the one man who's beaten his black champ (at 17), a white man now in a rock band. Like Rocky, he trains heavily whereas the champ slacks.
May 3, 2021 · By JANET MASLIN. he gloves are definitely off in "The Great White Hype," a happily outrageous satire aimed at big-money boxing and the promoters and hustlers pulling its strings....
