White Men Can't Jump Page #5

Synopsis: Billy and Sydney think they're the best basketball hustlers in town, so when they join forces, nothing can stop them, except each other. To add to their problems, Billy owes money and is being chased by a pair of gangster types.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Director(s): Ron Shelton
Production: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
  4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
77%
R
Year:
1992
115 min
3,314 Views


against your 1, 150.

That's a bet!

I'll hold the money.

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Wait! Wait! Wait!

I'll hold it.

I ain't going nowhere.

He ain't going nowhere.

The bakery ain't open yet.

We play to 10 by 1 s.

You make it, you take it.

Hey! Hey! Hey!

Martha Graham!

Martha Graham,

can you play?

Can you come out

and play?

Do you think

you can play?

Can you come out

and play?

Do you think

you can play?

I got it!

Call out the screen!

Nice pick, man.

Damn! Switch, man!

Switch, my ass!

OK.

Right here.

Do it here!

I got it!

Can you come out

and play?

Do you think

you can play?

Whoo! Yes!

Yes!

Go back to Sea World,

motherf***er.

You let him back door you

like that?

I thought he was going to pass

the ball.

"D" up, man.

You don't know

what "D" is.

No, sh*t, Curly.

You f***ing Globetrotter.

Come on.

Come on! Come on!

Come on, man!

Can you come out

and play?

Hey, hey

Do you think

you can play?

Can you come out

and play?

Were you

going to shoot?

He was on my ass.

You were wide-open.

$1,700 is

on the line.

I'm not forcing

the shot.

Do you think

you can play?

Can you come out

and play?

Yes, baby!

Why are you

kicking out to me?

Take the shot.

I'm sorry, man.

You OK?

Yeah.

9-8, us, point game!

Check the ball.

One more bucket,

me and Zeke split $1,700.

No.

You tried to hustle.

Still wasn't good enough.

Are we going to

chitchat or play?

Get the f*** out!

Take me to

the hole, then.

Let's go!

I practice on people

like you.

Practice

playing this game.

Ball! Ball!

Ball! Ball!

I'm going to take your money,

then your girl.

Take your old girl.

You're holding me!

I ain't holding you!

That's all you're doing.

Hey!

Get this jump!

Oh!

Yes!

Both of y'all go

back to Sea World!

- 1,700!

- 1,700!

Hey!

Goddamn!

Give me my money.

It was so nice

just to hold it.

I am dead.

I am dead.

Oh, man.

I'm sorry, man.

I thought

I had it.

I'm dog meat.

She'll dump me now.

I feel terrible.

I had a lousy game.

Sh*t! We're better

than those guys!

I've beat guys

10 times better than that!

I know.

It's my fault.

It's nobody's fault.

Sometimes the ball

doesn't go down.

Look, man.

You want a ride?

I'm taking the rail.

I got to figure out how I'm going

to tell Gloria

I lost everything

we had again,

then figure out where

I'm going to sleep tonight.

Hey, Billy,

I'm sorry, man.

I mean that!

I'm sorry!

39 is the answer.

What is

the question?

How many books are in

the Old Testament?

I am so f***in' good.

Did Jeopardy!

Call yet?

Not yet, but I'll

need a nice dress.

When they call,

you got to be ready.

You want to hear

the books

of the Old Testament

backwards?

It's Malachi,

Zechariah, Haggai...

Honey, please.

I did famous women

and foods that

start with "Q."

You couldn't imagine

how many foods there are

that actually start

with "Q."

Honey, will you

please shut up?

What's wrong with you?

I lost the money.

Oh, Jesus, Billy!

Not again!

How much?

A lot of it.

Most of it.

Roughly... all of it.

Billy, you lost all

our f***in' money?

Sh*t, Billy!

Jesus, man!

$1,700!

Billy!

We were on our way

to 8,000!

Were your opponents

that good?

I beat better guys

in Jersey.

You weren't hitting

your jump shots?

I was hitting mine.

What about Sidney?

He had an off day.

He wasn't

shooting much.

This guy scored

on him.

He wasn't D-ing up.

He usually plays

good "D."

You got hustled.

I did not

get hustled.

You got set up.

You got hustled by Sidney!

No. He's a good guy.

You said

he's full of sh*t!

And he's a good guy!

You're full of sh*t.

And f*** that sh*t!

I'm going back to

that house

and getting

my money back.

No, no, no, honey.

A man cannot ask

for his money back.

He lives in

the jungle, right?

No, honey, we can't.

They don't let white people

in the Crenshaw District.

I don't know

about Puerto Ricans,

but it's a reverse

discrimination thing.

We dropped off Sidney on the corner

of Crenshaw and Washington.

Honey,

you don't understand.

Men understand

how these things work.

Wasn't there

an apartment house there?

Let me explain.

Men's rules

are very simple.

If you win, you win.

If you lose, you lose.

You don't ask

for the money back.

Why not?

It's not part

of the rules.

Yeah? I got a different

set of rules.

Want to hear them?

Sometimes when you win,

you really lose.

Sometimes when you lose,

you really win.

Sometimes when you win

or lose, you actually tie.

Sometimes when you tie,

you actually win or lose.

I hate it when you

talk like that.

It makes me crazy

when you talk like that.

Winning and losing is

one big organic globule

from which one extracts

what one needs.

I'm f***ed.

Forget it.

I ain't... no, no.

I'm not getting

off this bus.

No, stop!

Can we discuss it?

Can we have

a discussion here?

Yes?

Does Sidney Deane

live here?

He does.

He's my husband.

Yeah, well,

your husband stole $1,700

from my boyfriend.

Really?

Just a minute.

Sidney?

Yeah, baby?

Some people out here

say you stole their money.

Oh, sh*t.

No, baby.

I didn't steal his money.

I hustled his money.

Yo! Cindy Brady!

That girl is fine!

Cindy Brady,

what happened?

What do you want?

Who invited you

in my house?

I did.

I want to talk to...

Gloria.

That man hustled me

long before

I ever hustled him.

I saw

the whole thing.

What goes around

comes around.

Then you won't mind

if Gloria and I talk.

You want something

to drink?

Please.

This boy got

a lot of guts.

Billy Ho!

Good to see you, Billy!

You look swell!

You f***ed me, man.

Get out in front

of the TV.

You f***ed me!

We had a partnership!

We were never partners.

Look,

it goes like this.

You either smoke,

or you get smoked.

And you got smoked!

Ha ha!

Clean as my gun.

Yes, it was.

Smooth.

A thing of beauty

is a joy forever.

Sidney, get this guy

to shut the f*** up!

I'll go the way

you like...

I'm sorry, I'm sorry,

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

I want my money.

You not getting

the money back.

You giving me

my money back.

I'm not giving

you nothin'.

Billy and Sidney

were teammates.

Teammates can't

hustle each other.

Oh, really?

Why not?

It's not artistic!

I don't care

about art, OK?

All I care about

is getting out

of the Vista View

apartment building!

There ain't

no vista, no views,

or no vista

of views.

You want cream,

sugar, or what?

Cream.

I trusted you.

There are rules to hustling.

There's an ethics

involved.

That you wouldn't know

anything about.

I never shook anyone's hand

and stabbed him in the back.

The Indians shook hands

with the Pilgrims,

and look who got f***ed.

Who you calling Pilgrim?

You, motherfucking

Christopher Columbus.

Gobble this, turkey.

I got a gun

in my hand!

What the f***'s

wrong with you?

Shoot this motherf***er!

Hold it!

It's up!

Quick!

Aw, man!

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

Pop it, James! Yeah!

Good play.

That's a black man.

That's a black man.

Throughout our

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Ron Shelton

Ron Shelton (September 15, 1945 in Whittier, California) is an American Oscar-nominated film director and screenwriter. Shelton is known for the many films he has made about sports. more…

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