The Sixth Man

PG-13 5.6
1997 1 hr 47 min Fantasy , Drama , Comedy , Science Fiction

A college athlete returns from the dead to help his brother's basketball team win the NCAA title.

  • Cast:
    Marlon Wayans , Kadeem Hardison , David Paymer , Michael Michele , Octavia Spencer , Saundra McClain , Harold Sylvester

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Reviews

FeistyUpper
1997/03/28

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

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Curapedi
1997/03/29

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

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Tayloriona
1997/03/30

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

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Neive Bellamy
1997/03/31

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

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FlashCallahan
1997/04/01

Antoine and Kenny Tyler are NCAA college basketball players, and Antoine is the star. Suddenly Antoine dies of heart attack during on of his best games, and Kenny has to fill his shoes as leader of team. After the team has a run of losses, Antoine returns as a ghost and helps Kenny in game and in life, but Kenny changes in the process and doesn't quite like it.....There was a time in the mid-nineties when it seemed that studios were giving anybody with a bit of a kookiness to them, or a decent TV career starring roles in semi-major Hollywood releases. Some had moderate success (Damon Wayans), and some started with promise but their popularity soon dropped, astonishingly rapidly (Pauly Shore, Sinbad).But they were all watchable, had the same running time, and the narrative was based solely on their schtick, their trademark.And then we have this movie. It's high concept, with two good leads, but the film forgets two things, Angels In The Outfield, and he most important aspect of a comedy, to be funny.It's not Wayans fault, he has some great screen presence, and if anyone has saw his audition for the Richard Pryor forthcoming Biopic, he's a blooming decent actor.So shame on the film makers for having him be miserable for half the film, and be running around screaming like a loon and hugging thin air for the rest of it.It's too long, and for a children's film about a ghostly basketball player, its way too depressing and too profane.What could have been a fun 90 minutes ends up as a boring depressing ordeal, with really nothing going for it.

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IrockGswift
1997/04/02

There's nothing more worst then losing a sibling especially with one you grew up with. This movie is real touching especially when the teammates gave a moment of silence and hung up his jersey. A real tear-jerker. Then it became humorous when they were winning games by the help of Antione's ghost and kidding around with his younger brother. The movie is often silly at times but enjoying.

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talk_2_ju
1997/04/03

I love this movie! I bought this movie right after I had seen it once. I wanted to watch it more. I've seen it more than 15 times and I never get bored of it. The comedy is great and not gross like most comedies are. The bonus thing about this movie is that there are great looking guys in basketball jerseys! I am into basketball so that made the movie even better. The movie has a mix of comedy, romance, and drama. Everyone that I have talked to that has seen this movie has loved it. So for all you basketball players and movie lovers out there this movie is for you. :)

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Skidemon
1997/04/04

While not as good as I hoped it would be, THE SIXTH MAN does deliver a few laughs. It wasn't the best movie I've ever seen, but it wasn't the worst. It could have been a little better if it didn't go for such cheap laughs and didn't depend so much on slapstick humor.

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