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Category: 14
All Genres: Comedy, Sport
Release Year: 2008
Country: USA
Runtime: 91
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: Kent Alterman
Sound: Dolby Digital, DTS, SDDS
Taglines:

The Greatest Fro on Earth

Putting the funk into the dunk.

Writing by: Scot Armstrong - (written by)

Produced by: Michael Aguilar - executive producer
Kent Alterman - executive producer
Cale Boyter - executive producer
Joshua Church - co-producer (as Josh Church)
Toby Emmerich - executive producer
David B. Householter - executive producer (as David Householter)
Jimmy Miller - producer
Lauren Shuler Donner - executive producer

Cast: Will Ferrell - Jackie Moon
Woody Harrelson - Monix
André Benjamin - Clarence
Maura Tierney - Lynn
Andrew Daly - Dick Pepperfield
Will Arnett - Lou Redwood
Andy Richter - Bobby Dee
David Koechner - Commissioner
Rob Corddry - Kyle
Matt Walsh - Father Pat the Ref
Jackie Earle Haley - Dukes

Music: Theodore Shapiro
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Plot Outline: Jackie Moon, the owner-coach-player of the American Basketball Association's Flint Michigan Tropics, rallies his teammates to make their NBA dreams come true
Plot: Three men, three dreams. It's 1976 in Flint, Michigan. Jackie Moon's American Basketball Association team languishes in last place, with few fans in the seats. Jackie dreams of a merger with the NBA. A tough-minded point guard named Monix is at the end of his career; he's played on the champion Celtics but accepts a trade to Flint to be close to Lynn, the love of his life. Clarence "Coffee" Brown dreams of stardom: he's the Tropics' best player, but he's a hotdog who doesn't value teamwork. When the trio learns that a merger is in the works that won't include the Tropics, they pull the team together to try to achieve the impossible. Can dreams come true in Flint?

Movie Quotes: Jackie Moon: Everybody panic! It's just like the Titanic but it's full of bears!

Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
"No person or entity associated with this film received payment or anything of value, or entered into any agreement, in connection with the depiction of tobacco products."

Goofs: We know about 10 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Anachronisms: Although the movie is set in the 1970s, many people in the crowd at the various games can clearly be seen wearing modern day fashionable clothes such as hipster jeans and contemporary sport shirts. This is most noticeable in the scene when the bear escapes and everyone in the crowd rushes to exit the stadium.

Trivia: There are 5 entries in the trivia list - like these:
Except for the Flint Tropics, all of the team names and uniforms are the same as the real ABA.
In the film, Jackie Moon states that he has never vomited before, claiming that not even as a baby did he once vomit. In fact, as a baby Will Ferrell suffered from pyloric stenosis, a condition that causes frequent vomiting. A surgical scar on his upper right abdomen from the surgery he had to treat this condition is evident in this and many other films.
Amy Sedaris had a role but her scenes were cut from the final film.