White Men Can't Jump is a
1992 film starring
Woody Harrelson and
Wesley Snipes as
basketball hustlers, co-starring
Rosie Perez. The film was written and directed by
Ron Shelton and released in theaters on March 27, 1992 by
20th Century Fox.
Plot
Billy Hoyle (
Harrelson) is a former college-level
basketball player who makes a living hustling streetballers who assume he cannot play well because he is white. The hustle is even more provocative because, although he appears to be "a chump" and "a geek," Hoyle never downplays his skill to increase the stakes; it is the
African-American basketball players' own assumptions that are at the root of the hustle.