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Semi-Pro (2008)
Taking an irreverent look at the wild days of the ABA in the 1970s, this comedy film starring Will Ferrell and Woody Harrelson follows the fortunes of a 1976 woebegone basketball team in Flint, Mich., as it tries to play its way into the NBA. Ferrell is player/owner Jackie Moon, who pieces together a ragtag bunch of misfits and retreads played by the likes Woody Harrelson as an aging point guard and André Benjamin as a talented but uncoachable NBA hopeful. The film is full of familiar comedy faces including a couple cameo appearances from Pattie LaBelle, as Jackie's mom, and former NBA greats George Gervin and Artis Gilmore.
Taking an irreverent look at the wild days of the ABA in the 1970s, this comedy film starring Will Ferrell and Woody Harrelson follows the fortunes of a 1976 woebegone basketball team in Flint, Mich., as it tries to play its way into the NBA. Ferrell is player/owner Jackie Moon, who pieces together a ragtag bunch of misfits and retreads played by the likes Woody Harrelson as an aging point guard and André Benjamin as a talented but uncoachable NBA hopeful. The film is full of familiar comedy faces including a couple cameo appearances from Pattie LaBelle, as Jackie's mom, and former NBA greats George Gervin and Artis Gilmore.
PeopleWill Ferrell
TitlesSemi-Pro