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The Lowdown: Before there was "Space Jam," there was "The Fish." More entertaining than it ever deserves to be,
"Fish" features Julius "Dr. J" Erving as Moses Guthrie, the only star on a
hopeless Pittsburgh Pythons team. Towel/ball boy (you're never really sure what
he does for them) Tyrone (James Bond III) decides the only way to fix their
chemistry is to use the zodiac to put the right players around the Pisces,
Moses. With the help of astrologer Mona Mondieu (Stockard Channing), they persuade the team's crazy owner (Jonathan Winters) to stage open tryouts where players are
selected based on their sign. A motley crew of characters is assembled --
including legendary Harlem Globetrotter Meadowlark Lemon (as a ball-playing preacher) -- and
surprisingly the Pythons go on a roll!
Quality of Play: Beautiful. Lemon's passing skills dazzle
against NBA quality players and Dr. J has moves you still don't see today.
Real Ballers: Julius Erving, Meadowlark Lemon, Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar, Norm Nixon, Connie Hawkins, Don Chaney, Chris Ford, Spencer
Haywood, Bob Lanier, Cedric "Cornbread" Maxwell, Mychal Thompson and many
more.
Find It: Specialty video stores if you're lucky... but we're
crying for someone to produce a collector's edition DVD. |