Sweetwater
PG-13
6
2023
1 hr 59 min
Drama
, History
In 1990 Chicago, a taxi driver recounts to his passenger, a sportswriter, his life story. He reveals himself to be Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton, one of the first African Americans to play in the NBA.
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- Cast：
- Everett Osborne , Cary Elwes , Jeremy Piven , Eric Roberts , Jim Caviezel , Richard Dreyfuss , Kevin Pollak
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Reviews
Am i the only one who thinks........Average?
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Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast
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Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
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An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
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