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May 3, 2021 · 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. Racial and ethnic slurs fly everywhere in Reginald Hudlin's scattershot comedy, but the insults are so even-handed they wind up cathartic rather than rude.
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.
Sep 16, 2020 · https://www.daaracarchive.org/2013/01/the-great-white-hype-1996.htmlWhen interest in boxing wanes, Reverend Fred Sultan (Samuel L. Jackson), an outrageous, u...
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The sleazy, “fixed” world of professional boxing is the target of this on-the-mark satire about a powerful black boxing promoter who’s searching for the ultimate drawing card (and box office payout) — a championship fight with a white contender.
Sultan's solution: find a white contender to face the undefeated heavyweight champ, James "The Grim Reaper" Roper. 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.
May 3, 1996 · Reginald Hudlin. Director. Ron Shelton. Writer. Tony Hendra. Writer. When the champ's promoter, Rev. Sultan, decides something new is needed to boost the marketability of the boxing matches, he searches and finds the only man to ever beat the champ. The problem is that he isn't a boxer anymore and he's white.
May 3, 1996 · The problem is that he isn't a boxer anymore and he's white. However, once Rev. Sultan convinces him to fight, he goes into heavy training while the confident champ takes it easy and falls out of shape. Released: 1996-05-03. Genre: Comedy, Drama. Casts: Samuel L. Jackson, Jeff Goldblum, Peter Berg, Jon Lovitz, Damon Wayans.
