Blue Chips
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Actor: Alfre Woodard, Ed O'Neill, J.T. Walsh, Mary McDonnell, Nick NolteBrand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-29
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Blue Chips
Movie Review: IF YOU LIKED KAZAAM......(MUSINGS ON THE GREATEST SHAQ MOVIE EVER MADE)
Summary: 5 Stars
Where does one begin when attempting to describe an artistic work of true genius? What did the first art critic say after seeing Leo¡¦s Mona Lisa?
Words cannot do justice to this celluloid epic brought to us by the mastermind who also brought to us Kevin Costner playing baseball in a movie.
Let us begin at the beginning. Just see the movie. Stop whatever you are doing right now, and go watch the movie. If you have already seen it, do yourself a favor and watch it again.
There, that was easy, was it not? Now, the role of the reviewer remains, so we must at least attempt to describe to others, those who have not experienced this work of cinematic excellence how exactly their lives are incomplete for not having experienced it.
Perhaps what stands out most amongst the incomprehensible joy that is this film is the brilliant cast of characters immortalized here in. Blue Chips gave us Nick Nolte in all of his post-48 Hours pre-mug shot glory, back when he was still believable as a human being. Nolte stars as Pete Bell, a generic Bob Knight in a Season on the Brink who eventually decides to cast his lot in with the Pete Carrolls and John Calliparis of the coaching world and start recruiting a little more creatively. But that is just a drop in the bucket of the fictional world this film encompasses.
It gave us Ricky Roe, the farmboy moron with the heart of gold (and a daddy who needs a new tractor). It gave us Neon Bordeaux; that born-on-the-bayou conglomeration of superhuman athletic prowess and a happy go-lucky attitude towards his own illiteracy that makes it a little bit easier to overlook the sad state of poor rural and/or inner city school systems in the United States. It gave us Butch McRae, a Magic Johnson 2.0 (minus the AIDS) whose single mother who could just use a little help to put some food on the table for Butch and his four sisters. And those are just the recruits.
Groundbreaking in its own right is the scene where Rick Pitino has to explain to his wife why he gave $3,000 to an assistant coaches¡¦ wife for an abortion after Rick impregnated her following 30 seconds of sex on a table at a friend¡¦s Italian Restaurant. Truly Oscar worthy in every sense of the term.
Also look for revelatory performances from Ed O¡¦Neil as a guy named Ed (not Al Bundy) and Bob Cousy as Vic the athletic director. If all of that was not enough to convince you that this is quite possibly the greatest film ever made, please allow me to introduce the following bullet list to further my case on behalf of the film¡¦s most eloquent contributions to the history of moving pictures:
« Bob Hurley as an Indiana Hoosier
« The awkward Eric Anderson/Calbert Chaney shower scene
« Dick Vitale eating pizza
« Jim Caviezel playing basketball (prior to Crucifixion)
« Jerry Tarkanian topless scene
« Larry Bird as a shady used car salesman
In conclusion, watch the movie. You will thank Matt Nover and I later. To put it simply, Da Vinci and Picasso are lucky that Ron Shelton did not want to be a painter.
P.S. I liked Kazaam too.
Summary of Blue Chips
CHAMPIONSHIP COLLEGIATE BASKETBALL COACH PETE BELL HAS ALWAYS BEEN KNOWN FOR RUNNING THE CLEANEST PROGRAM IN THE LEAGUE. BUTWHEN BELL SUDDENLY FINDS HIMSELF AT THE END OF HIS 1ST LOSING SEASON, THE PRESSURE IS ON. SEEING NO OTHER WAY, HE DECIDES TOSTART PAYING RECRUITS UNDER THE TABLE.Similar DVD Movies
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