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Actor: Jackie Earle Haley, Maura Tierney, Patti LaBelle, Tim Meadows, Woody HarrelsonBrand: NEW LINE HOME VIDEO
Cinematographer: Shane Hurlbut
Composer: Theodore Shapiro
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video
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- Will Ferrell stars in Semi-Pro, an outrageous comedy set in 1976 against the backdrop of the maverick ABA - a fast-paced, wild and crazy basketball league that rivaled the NBA and made a name for itself with innovations like the three-point shot and slam dunk contest. Ferrell plays Jackie Moon, a one-hit wonder who used the profits from the success of his chart-topping song "Love Me Sexy"
Movie Reviews of Semi-Pro
Movie Review: very disappointing
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm a huge Will Farrell fan, and had been watching anything he did at all. Even movies that looked terrible like "Anchorman" and "Blades of Glory" were entertaining.
For a time it seemed like everything he touched would be great. Well, that time has come to an end. Semi-Pro simply isn't funny. It's not really sports movie either. It's just a paycheck vehicle from a group of people that knew I'd be enough of a sucker to watch it.
This movie was just 90 boring minutes that couldn't end fast enough. I'll probably still watch the next Will Farrell movie, but at least I know now he can make very bad ones.
Summary of Semi-Pro
Will ferrell stars in semi-pro, an outrageous comedy set in 1976 against the backdrop of the maverick aba a fast-paced, wild and crazy basketball league that rivaled the nba and made a name for itself with innovations like the three-point shot and slam dunk contest.The 1970s are back in all their excessive glory in Semi-Pro, an uneven but not uninspired Will Ferrell comedy about a professional basketball team that puts more energy into insane promotional schemes than playing well on the court. Ferrell stars as Jackie Moon, a former pop sensation who made enough money from a couple of hit records (the biggest: "Love Me Sexy") to buy Flint, Mich.'s the Tropics, a disorganized bunch of losers with one genuine talent named Coffee Black (Andre J. Benjamin). Despite knowing little about the game, Jackie is the Tropics' coach as well as a player, though his greater love is in coming up with such bizarre marketing stunts as wrestling a bear and attempting a motorcycle jump over a line of cheerleaders. When the Tropics look like they might be shut down, Jackie desperately agrees to let washed-up veteran player Monix (Woody Harrelson) take over coaching, turning the team's fortunes around--just a bit. The film's thin premise opens the floodgates to a series of absurd vignettes that suit Ferrell's silly-satiric brand of frat humor very well. There are choice moments, such as Jackie's table-shoving tantrum at a meeting of team owners (presided over by an aghast but tolerant commissioner, adroitly played by David Koechner), and his rapid escape from the Tropics' arena when he realizes everyone in the stands has won free corndogs (at Jackie's expense). Other performers shine, too, including Will Arnett and Andrew Daly as a glass-half-full/glass-half-empty pair of game announcers, and Maura Tierney as Monix's former love interest. The script is by Scot Armstrong (The Heartbreak Kid), and the film is the first directorial effort of producer Kent Alterman (Mr. Woodcock). --Tom Keogh
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