SummaryIn the fall of 1950, Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton forever changed the game of basketball when he became the first African American contracted to play in the NBA.
SummaryIn the fall of 1950, Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton forever changed the game of basketball when he became the first African American contracted to play in the NBA.
Sweetwater had promise in conception, but that promise disappeared in the screenwriting long before the screenwriter directed his own script into a near coma.
None of these people feel real. They’re the Montgomery Ward catalog of racists common to so many Civil Rights movies, they’ve become noxious cliches, particularly in this drab script, which feels like an AI chatbot wrote it.