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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
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Ron Shelton. Writer. Tony Hendra. Writer. Actors & actresses. Samuel L. Jackson. Rev. Fred Sultan. Jeff Goldblum. Mitchell Kane. Jamie Foxx. Hassan El Ruk'n. Peter Berg. Terry Conklin. Corbin Bernsen. Peter Prince. Jon Lovitz. Sol. Cheech Marin. Julio Escobar. John Rhys-Davies. Johnny Windsor. Salli Richardson-Whitfield. Bambi.
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 ...
Rated: 1/4 • Feb 24, 2022. Dec 6, 2018. 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 ...
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- Reginald Hudlin
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- Samuel L. Jackson
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.
Samuel L. Jackson, Jeff Goldblum, Peter Berg, Jon Lovitz, Corbin Bernsen, Cheech Marin, John Rhys-Davies, Salli Richardson, Jamie Foxx, Rocky Carroll, Michael Jace, Damon Wayans....
