Samuel L. Jackson
Rev. Fred Sultan
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May 3, 1996 · “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 abruptly at 91 minutes that it feels like the last reel is missing. The premise and the performances deserve better. The film stars Samuel L. Jackson ...
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- Reginald Hudlin
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- Samuel L. Jackson
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Edit page. 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 black champ (at 17), a white man now in a rock band. Like Rocky, he trains heavily whereas the champ slacks.
- Reginald Hudlin
- 3 min
The champ watches a videotape of "Dolemite" an action hero who in one scene is in bed with a scantily clad woman. SMOKING; Sultan smokes cigars throughout the movie. Reporters smoke cigars during press conferences. People are smoking backstage after the punk rock performance. Later in the movie as the fight nears, the champ smokes a lot of ...
Sultan finds his Great White Hope in a seedy bar in Cleveland, Ohio. The would-be contender, Terry Conklin, is a long-haired front man for a rock band all-too-appropriately named Massive Head Wound. But Terry's got one thing going for him, besides the color of his skin: he actually bested Roper in an amateur bout many years earlier.
