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The Top 40 Basketball Movies - #17. Inside Moves

 The Top 40 Basketball Movies - #17. Inside Moves
Inside Moves

Never even heard of this until after I started watching these basketball movies. I heard about it on the Bill Simmons podcast, can't remember which movie they were discussing, maybe Vision Quest or He Got Game and Harold Sylvester came up as being a real good basketball player and that he was in Fast Break but also in Inside Moves. Inside Moves was recommended there and that is basically all I needed to give it a chance. Directed by Richard Donner, that was one lightbulb (came out in the same year as Superman 2). Donner did this move post being fired from Superman. The featured basketball team is the Golden State Warriors, which is my favorite non-Detroit team. Was rated R, but changed to PG and apparently Donner had a less violent version filmed as well. The beginning was difficult, it came out in 1980 but is a 70's movie through and through. The first scene is a suicide attempt from our main character Roary. From his recovery he starts going to a dive bar and falls in with some locals, one of which the bartender Jerry is really good at basketball. If you can make it that far like I did, you will be hooked. It's a lot to ask for a casual film watcher. It has some important basketball scenes and moments, but it's really more about this friendship between Roary and Jerry, and to a lesser extent all the bar patrons. Roary gets a love interest, his suicide attempt comes up, but it's never in a way that would seem resolved. Jerry's love interest is with a hooker and her pimp is one of the protagonists of the movie. Don't know much about the cast. The actor John Savage seems to have the most credits to his name but I have probably watched more of David Morse. It had an Oscar nomination in Diana Scarwid. 

Movie Rotten Tom Rotten Tom Aud IMDB   Internet Rank My Rank
17. Inside Moves 50 77 7.0 19 16
18. Hoop Dreams 98 92 8.3 2 35
19. Uncle Drew 61 48 5.7 32 6
20. Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story 50 99 6.9 11 28
21. The Winning Season 50 55 6.6 26 15
22. Fast Break 50 59 6.1 30 13
23. Believe in Me 60 74 7.0 16 29
24. High Flying Bird 91 50 6.2 20 26
25. "O" 64 58 6.1 22 25
26. Forget Paris 48 56 6.5 29 19
27. Sunset Park 13 83 5.9 31 21
28. Game Day 50 82 5.4 25 30
29. Blue Chips 37 51 6.2 33 23
30. Amateur 60 66 5.9 24 32
31. The Air Up There 21 35 5.5 38 20
32. Space Jam 43 63 6.5 27 31
33. Semi-Pro 22 38 5.8 36 24
34. Heaven Is a Playground 50 84 5.8 21 39
35. Hurricane Season 50 69 6.5 23 38
36. Teen Wolf 42 52 6.1 34 34
37. Boogie 42 57 5.2 35 36
38. Rebound 14 38 5.1 40 33
39. Slam Dunk Ernest 50 31 4.5 37 37
40. Eddie 17 36 5.2 39 40

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