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Movie Review
Sunset Park
Starring Rhea Perlman and Fredro
Starr
Directed by Steve Gomer
Rated R
Playing at Hollywood 16
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By Wes Swift
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While watching Sunset Park,
the most recent foray into the
world of basketball films, the
same question raced through my
mind quicker than a fast break:
Has Hollywood run out of
stories?
Rhea Perlman stars in this
mediocre drama as Phyllis Saro
ka, a teacher who takes over as
the head men’s basketball coach
in a Brooklyn high school. Saro
ka doesn’t take the job for the
love of coaching, but rather to
collect a little extra cash to open
a restaurant on St. Croix.
The problem for Phyllis,
however, is that she doesn’t
know a basketball from a
kumquat. But she
forms a bond with her
team, a motley crew of
criminals, junkies and
delinquents, and
learns a thing or two
about the crew.
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evitably begins to suc
ceed on the court, she
and her players begin
to discover a little bit
about what it takes to
win off the court.
Director Steve
Gomer should have learned a
thing or two about getting a good
script before taking to the court.
The screenplay too closely re
sembles 1986’s Wildcats, the
Goldie Hawn comedy about a
woman who takes over as coach
of a high school football team.
Wildcats, for all its sophomoric
antics, was funny. It didn’t bother
to mire itself in the bog of reflec
tion and profundity that Sunset
Park does. Sunset tries to make
audiences get into the minds of
the characters and make them
care about what happens.
The problem, though, is that
Gomer doesn’t give viewers
enough time to get attached to
anybody in the film. Serious con
versations — the breeding
ground for the revelations of any
film — are drowned between
scenes of locker room machismo
and thundering court action.
Perlman is severely miscast as
Saroka. Call me nostalgic, but it’s
hard for me to imagine Perlman
in any role beside Carla Tortelli,
the quick-witted waitress from
Cheers. She doesn’t do anything
to change my perception. The lov
able loser role in this film just
doesn’t suit Perlman.
The rest of the cast, i.e. the
team, is composed of potential
stars. Fredro Starr, who received
an Ace Award nomination for
best supporting actor in the
HBO movie Strapped and dou
bles as member of the rap group
Onyx, solidly plays Shorty, the
team’s short-fused star player.
The remaining teammates are
merely shades that allow the
coach to bounce her pearls of
wisdom. No one stands out, just
like the film.
Someone should have stuffed
Sunset Park before it ever got on
the court.
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