BASEketball Movie Review 1998

Dude! Three slacker buddies ("South Park"'s Parker and Stone plus Bachar) invent a new game in their driveway--a combo of basketball with baseball rules--and see it turn into big business. Parkere gets to romance Jenna Reed (Bleeth), a social worker who helps "health-challenged" kids. Stone and Parker's penchant for gross-out humor and having their characters say whatever's on their minds (no matter how offensive) mixes well with Zucker's talent for sight gags and physical humor to create an enjoyably guilty pleasure. Based on a game that Zucker invented with friends.

Distribution

Universal Studios Home Video, 100 Universal City Plz., Universal City, CA 91608-9955, Phone: (818)777-1000, Fax: (818)866-1483, URL: http://www.universalstudios.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 103 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Sports Comedies, Buddies, Technicolor Yawn, Hospitals & Medicine, Corporate Shenanigans, Cheerleaders, Wisconsin

Screenplay

David Zucker, Robert Locash, Jeffrey Wright, Lewis Friedman

Cast

Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Yasmine Bleeth, Jenny McCarthy, Ernest Borgnine, Dian Bachar, Robert Vaughn, Bob Costas, Al Michaels, Reggie Jackson, Robert Stack, Steve Garvey, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Cinematography

Steve Mason

Director

David Zucker

Music

Ira Newborn

Other

Jeff Reiner, William Hiney

Producer

David Zucker, Gil Netter, Robert Locash, Universal Pictures