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Article: Call a foul on basketball's farcical `Sixth Man': Film tries gamely to be funny but loses.(Metropolitan Times)(Arts & Entertainment)(Movies)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 28, 1997
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"The Sixth Man" arrives in conspicuous need of first aid in the screenwriting and conception-justifying areas. Too late, obviously.
A modest - and fitfully entertaining - shambles, "Sixth" attempts to finesse a contradictory agenda of farce, heartbreak, supernatural marvels and collegiate basketball hoopla while matching Marlon Wayans and Kadeem Hardison as hoopster siblings. Their characters, Kenny and Antoine Tyler, respectively, are introduced as the mainstays of an adolescent team coached by their dad, James, played by the former collegiate star Harold Sylvester, doomed to an early departure.
The co-stars, still mom's pride and joy, enter as the ...