Sweetwater (2023) Video Mp4 Download Movie
In the fall of 1950, Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton forever changed the game of basketball when he entered the NBA. The story of the first African American to land a contract to play in the NBA.
The forces who made this magical negro biopic about pioneer basketball player Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton (Everett Osborne) were well-intentioned, but the film is clearly wretched. “Sweetwater” begins with a hoops beat writer (Jim Caviezel) stepping into a yellow taxicab in Chicago in 1990. The audio of a Bulls game featuring highlights of Michael Jordan’s play echoes in the background. In the foreground, the driver asks if this grizzled reporter knows anything about the former greats: Julius Erving, Connie Hawkins, and Elgin Baylor. In a way that suggests an initiation, the reporter counters with David Thompson and Oscar Robertson. He’s earned the right to learn this mysterious driver’s name and story: He’s Sweetwater. What begins with a frame recalling “Driving Miss Daisy,” unfortunately, quickly descends into “The Legend of Bagger Vance.”
The film fades into New York City in 1949. The world champion Minneapolis Lakers face the Harlem Globetrotters in a barnstorming exhibition game, and Sweetwater is the clear star. The Globetrotters, a clown basketball team of Black players and athletes, are trying to ply their trade in the one arena available to them. They dream of becoming a professional basketball team once the segregated NBA realizes its best chance at survival and growth is to adopt the “razzle, dazzle play” of African-American “streetball.” We see intricate crossovers and passes behind the back, audacious hoops, and fun gamesmanship.
And yet, the filming of the actual gameplay leaves much to be desired. I can’t decide if it’s the flat, turgid lighting meant to elicit nostalgia for Converse shoes and long socks or the absentmindedness for anything resembling an evocative composition. You’ll find more electric pacing and sharper thrills in an NBA 2K video game than here.
Sweetwater (2023)
Genre: Drama, History
Release Date: May 6, 2023 (United States)
Stars: Everett Osborne, Cary Elwes, Jeremy Piven, Eric Roberts
Source: Sweetwater.2023.1080p.AMZN.WEBRip.DDP5.1.x264-APEX
Language: English
Subtitle Language: English
