Quick Break begins with Gabe Kaplan, of Welcome Again, Kotter fame, as David Greene. When the movie begins, Greene is taking part in decide up ball in Brooklyn earlier than hitting the bar with a bunch of younger gamers. Within the midst of their dialog, he breaks down their sport and explains Bob Cousy to them.
On a lark, David is obtainable a training job of a newly fashioned males’s basketball group at Cadwallader College. The college, extra of a sham than something, gives Greene $50 per win and the promise of a $30,000 a yr contract for 3 years if he is ready to beat Nevada State, a high ten faculty.
Greene begins by gathering a ragtag group of New York road ballers who will get “scholarships” to attend Cadwallader. The group contains Hustler, performed by Corridor of Fame Bernard King, Preacher, performed by two-time NCAA Champion Michael Warren, D.C., performed by Harold Sylvester, the primary African American to obtain a basketball scholarship from Tulane, and “Swish” carried out by Mavis Washington, a basketball and volleyball coach in her solely skilled movie position.
Greene and his gamers drive throughout nation in a station wagon. At one level, a police automotive comes racing with sirens and lights, forcing them to eat a pound of marijuana earlier than discovering the cruiser was simply passing by.
Upon arriving to the campus, they discover a run down buildings with a damaged down gymnasium. Greene and the New Yorkers meet the present gamers on the roster, slim pickings
Because it stands to motive, a movie with Gabe Kaplan is written and carried out as a comedy, the humor coming from the circumstances of the gamers, the fish out of water side, and one-liners.
Within the movie’s climax, Greene will get his shot in opposition to Nevada State, however the group’s rise in reputation has alerted NYPD, who come to the sport to arrest D.C.
Even in its day, Quick Break was thought-about passé but entertaining. Full with disco-based hits and 70s gags, the ending is predictable however satisfying all the identical. Positively Saturday afternoon throwback flick.
The movie additionally options Laurence Fishburne in one among his earliest roles.
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