Fast Break (film)

• Harold Sylvester: D.C.
• Michael Warren: Tommy ' Preacher ' White
• Bernard King: Hustler
• Reb Brown: Bull
• Mavis Washington: Swish
• Bert Remsen: Bo Winnegar
• Randee Heller: Jan
• Connie Sawyer: Mom
• John Chappell: Alton Gutkas
• Rhonda Bates: Enid Gutkas
• Marty Zagon Henry
• Richard Brestoff: Howard
• Laurence Fishburne: Street child

The chance of a lifetime is an American comedy film from the year 1979.

Action

David Greene is an avid basketball fan. Although he has a deli in Brooklyn, his biggest dream is to earn his living as a basketball coach. So he again and again sent applications to maybe somewhere coach a college team may. Meanwhile, his long-suffering wife, Jan, wants nothing more than to buy a house and start a family. Just as he's about to give up his dream, he receives an offer of Cadwallader University, which pays him $ 60 for each win and offers a lucrative contract, provided that the men's team on one of the top 10 teams, the basketball players of the Nevada State can win. Together with his friend Hustler he builds a little crazy, but still powerful team together.

Criticism

"Great service riser - naive comedy about the American belief in the success of their own efforts; silly predominantly langweilend, dramatically weak and in the superficial sketched conflicts and predictable. "

Background

The film was released on March 2, 1979 in New York City in the cinemas. In Germany the film was first aired on 28 July 1987, ZDF.