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Blue Chips is a american film of genre Drama directed by William Friedkin released in USA on 18 february 1994 with Nick Nolte

Blue Chips (1994)

Blue Chips
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Released in USA 18 february 1994
Length 1h48
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating62% 3.148483.148483.148483.148483.14848

Blue Chips is a 1994 basketball drama film, directed by William Friedkin, written by Ron Shelton and starring Nick Nolte as a college coach and real-life basketball stars Shaquille O'Neal and Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway as talented finds. It features cameos from noted basketball figures Bob Knight, Rick Pitino, Bob Cousy, Larry Bird, Jerry Tarkanian, Matt Painter, Allan Houston, Dick Vitale and Jim Boeheim, as well as Oscar-winning actor Louis Gossett, Jr.

Synopsis

Pete Bell (Nolte), a college basketball coach for the fictional Western University Dolphins, is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning as often as it once did and his successful program needs to attract new star players and fast. But the brightest stars of the future — the so-called "blue-chip" prospects — are secretly being paid by other schools.

Actors

Nick Nolte

(Pete)Shaquille O'Neal

(Neon)Mary McDonnell

(Jenny)J. T. Walsh

(Happy)Alfre Woodard

(Lavada McRae)
And :
Ed O'Neill
Louis Gossett Jr.
Robert Wuhl
Cylk Cozart
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