1. Blue Chips movie review & film summary (1994) | Roger Ebert
The movie is told almost entirely from Nolte's point of view, and he makes an immensely likable character right from the top, where he viciously chews out his ...
Alot of college basketball coaches seem caught in a Catch-22. If they don't win, they get fired. To win, they need great players. To recruit great players,
2. William Friedkin's 'Blue Chips' Is Better Than You Remember - Esquire
10 aug 2023 · At the center of the movie is the message that people with money and power will break any rule to enrich themselves further. We see it play out ...
His 1994 basketball drama flopped upon release. Audiences and critics got it wrong.
3. MOVIE REVIEW : 'Blue Chips' Doesn't Score but It's a Good Sport
18 feb 1994 · The movie is best around the edges, when it's jamming and anecdotal and not taking itself so heroically seriously. Corruption in college ...
Sports movies don't always have to be great to be fun.
4. Filmmaker of the Month Review: Blue Chips - The Spool
27 sep 2023 · Blue Chips turns over the ball early, never gets back into it. Friedkin's facile take on corruption in college sports can't run its game.
Friedkin’s facile take on corruption in college sports can’t run its game. NOW STREAMING: Powered by JustWatch While difficult, it is essential when reviewing a film to evaluate it within the context of the era. To choose a relatively inoffensive hypothetical, if a movie made before 1980 refers to bipolar disorder as “manic depression,” you shouldn’t ding it for the outdated terminology. After all, at that moment, that was the proper parlance. Still, it’s not easy, especially when our understanding of an issue has changed significantly in the years since. This reviewer, for instance, struggled mightily to judge William Friedkin’s 1994 directorial effort Blue Chips on its own era-specific merits. Thankfully, I suppose, it isn’t especially good in that context either. Released nine years after To Live and Die in L.A. and 12 years before Bug, Blue Chips finds Friedkin in a protracted creative and critical slump. While not appreciated at the time of release, subsequent reevaluation has L.A. as an impressive, exhilarating work. The films that followed, however, were not well received upon release or since. Rampage asked some interesting questions about the death penalty but lacked strong characterization or stylish vision. The Guardian was a strange mix of pre-Hand That Rocks the Cradle caretaker paranoia and half-baked witch-based horror. And the films that followed Blue Chips? Well, there was Jade, for one. Nick Nolte should work on that pos...
5. Blue Chips (1994) directed by William Friedkin • Reviews, film + cast
Blue Chips makes great use of Friedkin's obsession with authenticity; it is a good indictment of the NCAA because we can almost smell the corruption coming off ...
Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the college game, but Pete is desperate and has pressures from all around.
6. Blue Chips | Reelviews Movie Reviews
As for the actual basketball sequences, they're exceptionally well-done, accurately capturing the feel of a college game. The presence of several real-life ...
An underdog team gets an infusion of outside talent (either a player or a coach) and goes from the bottom to the top, winning the championship in a game whose result is never in doubt. This is the plot of dozens of sports-related motion pictures, ...
7. Family-Friendly Friedkin: 'Blue Chips' - Everything But Horror
14 aug 2023 · Now Streaming: · To be fair, I've never seen · Written by Ron Shelton, whose other basketball movie, · Shelton tends to write big, flashy ...
Director William Friedkin made a basketball movie! And it's pretty good!
8. Blu-ray review: “Blue Chips” (1994) - spryfilm.com
14 sep 2023 · Starring Nick Nolte, Shaquille O'Neal, and Anfernee “Penny” Hardaway, “Blue Chips” delves into issues such as recruiting violations, the ...
“Blue Chips” (1994) Drama Running Time: 108 minutes Written by: Ron Shelton Directed by: William Friedkin Featuring: Nick Nolte, Mary McDonnell, Ed O’Neill, J. T. Walsh, Alfre Woodard and Sha…
9. Western Union: A Blue Chips Oral History - Sports Illustrated
8 jul 2019 · That film finally landed in theaters 25 years ago. And, acting bona fides aside, the payout was something else. For better (Shaq and Penny) and ...
Shaq and Penny. Bobby Knight and Dickie V. The Sexiest Man Alive and the guy behind The Exorcist. Twenty-five years ago they all combined—or collided, really—to create the definitive college-hoops-scandal movie. This is the inside story.
