The Great White Hype

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'''''The Great White Hype''''' is a 1996 American [[Sports film|sports]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Reginald Hudlin]]. It stars [[Samuel L. Jackson]], [[Peter Berg]], [[Damon Wayans]], [[Jeff Goldblum]], [[Jon Lovitz]], [[Cheech Marin]], [[John Rhys-Davies]], [[Salli Richardson]] and [[Jamie Foxx]].
'''''The Great White Hype''''' is a 1996 American [[Sports film|sports]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Reginald Hudlin]]. It stars [[Samuel L. Jackson]], [[Peter Berg]], [[Damon Wayans]], [[Jeff Goldblum]], [[Jon Lovitz]], [[Cheech Marin]], [[John Rhys-Davies]], [[Salli Richardson]] and [[Jamie Foxx]].


The film satirizes racial preferences in boxing, and was inspired by [[Larry Holmes]]'s [[Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney|1982 fight]] with [[Gerry Cooney]] (who was known as "The Great White Hope") and [[Mike Tyson]]'s [[Mike Tyson vs. Peter McNeeley|1995 return fight]] vs. [[Peter McNeeley]].{{citation needed|date=September 2024}} [[Entertainment Weekly]] called Rev. Fred Sultan (Samuel L. Jackson) a "[[Don King]]-clone."{{cite web |last1=Tucker |first1=Ken |title=The Great White Hype |url=https://ew.com/article/1996/05/10/great-white-hype-2/ |publisher=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=15 November 2023}}
The film [[Satire|satirizes]] racial preferences in [[boxing]], and was inspired by [[Larry Holmes]]'s [[Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney|1982 fight]] with [[Gerry Cooney]] (who was known as "The Great White Hope") and [[Mike Tyson]]'s [[Mike Tyson vs. Peter McNeeley|1995 return fight]] vs. [[Peter McNeeley]].{{citation needed|date=September 2024}} [[Entertainment Weekly]] called Rev. Fred Sultan (Samuel L. Jackson) a "[[Don King]]-clone."{{cite web |last1=Tucker |first1=Ken |title=The Great White Hype |url=https://ew.com/article/1996/05/10/great-white-hype-2/ |publisher=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=15 November 2023}}


The film was distributed by [[20th Century Fox]] and was released on May 3, 1996.
The film was distributed by [[20th Century Fox]] and was released on May 3, 1996.
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On [[Rotten Tomatoes]] the film has an approval rating of 42% based on reviews from 24 critics.{{cite web |title= The Great White Hype (1996) |url= http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/great_white_hype/ |website= [[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date= February 25, 2022 |archive-date= September 9, 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240909091145/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/great_white_hype |url-status= live }} Audiences surveyed by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film a grade C+ on scale of A to F.{{cite web |url= https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |title= GREAT WHITE HYPE, THE (1996) C+ |work= [[CinemaScore]] |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181220122629/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |archive-date= 2018-12-20 }}
On [[Rotten Tomatoes]] the film has an approval rating of 42% based on reviews from 24 critics.{{cite web |title= The Great White Hype (1996) |url= http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/great_white_hype/ |website= [[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date= February 25, 2022 |archive-date= September 9, 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240909091145/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/great_white_hype |url-status= live }} Audiences surveyed by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film a grade C+ on scale of A to F.{{cite web |url= https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |title= GREAT WHITE HYPE, THE (1996) C+ |work= [[CinemaScore]] |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181220122629/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |archive-date= 2018-12-20 }}


[[Roger Ebert]] gave the film 2 out of 4 and wrote: "It starts out well, as a wicked satire on professional boxing, and then loses its energy, tires of juggling its characters and ends so abruptly at 91 minutes that it feels like the last reel is missing."{{cite web |last= Ebert |first= Roger |author-link= Roger Ebert |title= The Great White Hype movie review (1996) |url= https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-great-white-hype-1996 |website= [[Chicago Sun-Times]] |access-date= 2020-04-12 |archive-date= 2020-04-12 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200412124329/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-great-white-hype-1996 |url-status= live }}{{cite web |title= The Great White Hype |url=https://ew.com/article/1996/05/10/great-white-hype-2/ |website=EW }}
[[Roger Ebert]] gave the film 2 out of 4 and wrote: "It starts out well, as a wicked satire on professional boxing, and then loses its energy, tires of juggling its characters and ends so abruptly at 91 minutes that it feels like the last reel is missing."{{cite web |last= Ebert |first= Roger |author-link= Roger Ebert |title= The Great White Hype movie review (1996) |url= https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-great-white-hype-1996 |website= [[Chicago Sun-Times]] |access-date= 2020-04-12 |archive-date= 2020-04-12 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200412124329/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-great-white-hype-1996 |url-status= live }}{{cite web |title= The Great White Hype |url=https://ew.com/article/1996/05/10/great-white-hype-2/ |website=EW }}


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