Great White Hype, The
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Great White Hype, The
-- Scatterbrained spoof of prizefighting as a tacky slice of show business has a greedy promoter (Samuel L. Jackson) go for the big bucks by ballyhooing a match between the black heavyweight champ (Damon Wayans) and an unlikely white contender (Peter Berg) who once boxed as an amateur. Directed by Reginald Hudlin, the comic send-up of the fight game ranges from low farce to high comedy in a loose grab bag of uneven sketches on a subject which itself borders on self-parody. Pugilistic violence, sexual situations, ethnic and racial jibes, profanity and much rough language. (A-IV) (R)
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1996
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** Discontinued classification. All archived movies that were originally in the A-IV category are now classified as L.