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- 2023
- PG-13
- Briarcliff Entertainment
- 1 h 58 m
- 2023
- PG-13
- Briarcliff Entertainment
- 1 h 58 m
Summary In 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.
Directed By: Martin Guigui
- 2023
- PG-13
- Briarcliff Entertainment
- 1 h 58 m
- 2023
- PG-13
- Briarcliff Entertainment
- 1 h 58 m
Sweetwater
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Summary In 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.
Directed By: Martin Guigui
Top Cast
The result is competent and informative, but lacks swagger and elegance. Sweetwater is no three-pointer.
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.
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Production Company
Sunset Pictures,
Reserve Entertainment,
Astrablu Media,
Open River Entertainment,
Pasaca Entertainment
Release Date Apr 14, 2023
Duration 1 h 58 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline The story of the first African American to play in the NBA
Awards
Ferrara Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 2 Nominations
Big Apple Film Festival and Screenplay Competition
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
