Sweetwater (2023)
Genre: Biography / Drama
Duration: 118 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Martin Guigui
Stars: Everett Osborne, Cary Elwes and Jeremy Piven
IMDb score:
6,1 (1.585)
Releasedate: 14 April 2023
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Sweetwater plot
"The man who changed the game."
In the 1940s, African-American Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton starts playing basketball with the Harlem Trotters, an all-color team led by white Abe Saperstein. Because of their skin color, the men are not allowed to play in the NBA, trapping them in small town games. Joe Lapchick, the coach of the New York Knickerbockers, not only thinks Sweetwater is good enough to play in the NBA, he also thinks it's time to break the color line. He convinces team owner Ned Irish to give Sweetwater a chance. For this, Irish must convince the other owners, led by Maurice Podoloff. Some of them are not open to the idea of colored players in their lily white sport.
Actors and actresses
Nathaniel "Sweetwater" Clifton
Ned Irish
Joe Lapchick
Judd
Sports Writer
Maurice Podoloff
Abe Saperstein
Eddie Gottlieb
Miles Slocum
Donnie Grossman
Reviews & comments
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It is 1990 when a sports journalist [Jim Caviezel] in New York has an in-depth conversation about basketball with the driver of his taxi. What follows is the account of some brilliant black basketball players who were banned from the NBA in the 1940s because of a boycott of black players. Abe Saperstein [Kevin Pollak] has brought them together under the name 'Harlem Globetrotters', showing their brilliant tricks across America to wildly enthusiastic (and mostly white) spectators. Joe Lapchick [Jeremy Piven] and Ned Irish [Cary Elwes], the coach and owner of the New York Knickerbockers respectively, are convinced that these black players will enrich the NBA in every way. They decide to defy the NBA by signing Nat 'Sweetwater' Clifton [Everett Osborne]. The performances of the Globetrotters are phenomenal and the reconstruction of basketball around 1950 has been done with care. Osborne's level playing only reinforces the sense that Guigui had more interest in the white characters. That wouldn't even have been such a problem, but then he would have been better off calling this Lapchick & Irish.
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