The Great White Hype

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The Great White Hype
The movie poster for The Great White Hype.
Directed by	Reginald Hudlin
Produced by	Fred Berner Joshua Donen
Written by	Tony Hendra Ron Shelton
Starring	Jeff Goldblum Samuel L. Jackson Damon Wayans Corbin Bernsen Peter Berg Jon Lovitz Salli Richardson Jamie Foxx Cheech Marin John Rhys-Davies
Music by	Marcus Miller
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	May 3, 1996
Running time	91 min.
Language	English
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The 1996 movie The Great White Hype stars Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Berg, Damon Wayans, Jeff Goldblum, Jon Lovitz, Cheech Marin, John Rhys-Davies and Jamie Foxx .

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Jackson stars as Rev. Sultan, promoter of a champion boxer roughly based on Don King, who decides that he needs something new to boost the marketability of the boxing matches. He looks for a white contender and finds the only man (played by Berg) to ever beat the champ; the problem is that he isn't a boxer anymore.

However, once Rev. Sultan convinces him to fight, he goes into heavy training while the confident champ takes it easy and falls out of shape.

The film was distributed by 20th Century Fox.

[edit] Quotes

Sultan: "The highest-grossing fight of all time was Cooney vs Holmes. You know why, Champ?"
Roper: "Yeah. 'Cause Cooney was a white guy."
Sultan: "And his jab couldn't break wind!"

Rev. Fred Sultan: Who was the last person to beat the champ?
Sol: His mother!

(Quoting his father)
Mitchell Kane: Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and I'll give ya something to cry about you little bastard!

(Speaking to a man with long black hair)
Rev. Fred Sultan: "Hey Vincent, Vincent, where's Jules man," a reference to Jackson's character in Pulp Fiction two years earlier.