Sandler sells it hard as a washed-up talent scout but this glossy cameo-fest is too besotted with basketball to offer true dramaHere is an underdog sports movie with the longest training montage I think I have ever seen – it pretty much had an interval.
Hustle is co-produced by its star Adam Sandler and real-life basketball legend LeBron James, whose presence has essentially licensed a huge roster of real-life cameos from basketball stars, players and coaches, who are namechecked in the closing credits.
The whole thing looks a bit like a corporate promo for the NBA, and certainly does not admit of anything unwholesome in the world of pro basketball.Admittedly, Sandler sells it hard.
He plays Stanley Sugarman, a talent scout working for the Philadelphia 76ers: a harassed, overweight guy joylessly jetting the world looking for the next big thing, occasionally calling his smily, supportive wife, Teresa, from
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