Fast Break (film)

Fast Break is a 1979 American comedy film. Fast Break stars Gabe Kaplan as David Greene, Harold Sylvester as D.C. and Bernard King as Hustler. It was directed by Jack Smight and produced by Stephen Friedman. The film was the big screen debut of Kaplan, although he had made earlier appearances on television sitcoms and movies, and was one of the first film appearances of Laurence Fishburne.

David begins building his team with his friend Hustler former NBA star and Basketball Hall of Famer Bernard King, a talented baller and pool ace whose own fortunes turn sour when his pigeons realize theyve been sharked. David and Hustler recruit Preacher a preHill Street Blues Michael Warren, who also has good reason to get out of Dodge. He has gotten pregnant a powerful cult leaders 15yearold daughter, and theres a contract out on him. Next, David and Hustler ferret out D.C. Harold Sylvester, an acquaintance of Hustlers, whom David, with his encyclopedic basketball mind, recognizes as a former high school star who has traded his chance at basketball glory to run numbers. Finally, David and Hustler visit Swish, a finesse player with the sweetest jumper in town. Problem is, Swish is a girl. David doesnt see the problem, and convinces the androgynous Swish Mavis Washington to pose as a male in order to play on the team.David and his newly formed quartet head West and immediately set about finding a suitable fifth man among the shallow talent pool of Cadwallader athletes. David settles on Sam Newton Bull Reb Brown who makes up in laneclearing muscle what he lacks in basketball skills. Despite the challenges presented from the culture between the ethnic Easterners and the white bread Westerners, David develops Cadwallader into a contender. The team ultimately catches the eye of Bo Winnegar Bert Remsen, head coach of the elite team David must beat in order to make his coaching job a viable proposition. David must find a way to get Winnegar to agree to a game, which, as team manager Howard Richard Brestoff puts it, will be like getting the Ohio State Buckeyes to play football with Radcliffe. Nevertheless, after the resourceful coach learns that Bo enjoys billiards, he enlists Hustler in setting up an alltootransparent sting that forces Bo to agree to the game. ........

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