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Space Jam
Space Jam
"Get ready to jam."
Directed By Joe Pytka
Written By Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick, Timothy Harris, Herschel Weingrod
Cast Michael Jordan, Wayne Knight, Theresa Randle
Produced By Ivan Reitman, Joe Medjuck, Daniel Goldberg
Cinematography By Michael Chapman
Film Editing By Sheldon Kahn
Music By James Newton Howard
Studio Northern Lights Entertainment, Courtside Seats Productions, Warner Bros. Animation
Distributed By Warner Bros. Family Entertainment
Franchise Looney Tunes Franchise
Country United States
Language English
Release Date November 15, 1996
Runtime 87 Minutes
Rating PG
Budget $80,000,000
Gross $230,418,342


Overview[]

Space Jam is a 1996 American produced live action/animated sports-comedy family film starring Michael Jordan, Wayne Knight, and Bill Murray with Billy West, Danny DeVito, Dee Bradley Baker, and Kath Soucie contributing as primary voice actors.  It was directed by Joe Pytka. 

A sequel Space Jam: A New Legacy was scheduled to be released in 2021 and was accompanied by a promotional crossover film, Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam.

The tyrannical alien amusement park owner, Swackhammer has elected to recruit the Looney Tunes to permanently staff his failing park by any means necessary!  Sending his puny and stubby legged minions, the Nerdlucks to enslave the Tunes, a bet is struck with both sides electing to battle it out in a true gentlemanly-fashion competition.  A good ol' basketball game! 

But the Nerdlucks cheat and steal the prodigious basketball skills of the greatest star players turning the tables on the Tunes!  In desperation, Bugs Bunny decides to recruit some talent of their own: the peerless Michael Jordan.

Get ready to jam.

Plot[]

Following his third Championship victory with the Chicago Bulls, basketball star and living legend Michael Jordan decides to retire and follow in his late father's footsteps, dedicating himself to becoming a baseball player. However despite his best attempts, it's clear that his prodigious basketball skills do not translate to the baseball diamond.

Meanwhile the faltering space amusement theme park Moron Mountain run by the villainous Swackhammer is in danger of closing down because its too stale and boring. He needs something new, something fresh, something ... looney. And so the ruthless Swackhammer decides to "recruit" the Looney Tunes. He sends his inept henchmen, the Nerdlucks to Earth to bring the cartoon characters to Moron Mountain as his new star attractions by any means necessary!

Despite the Nerdlucks' alien technological superiority, the wily Bugs Bunny tricks them into a contest where their diminutive size, slow speed, and clumsiness gives them a major handicap. In essence: basketball!

All seems well for the Looney Tunes until the Nerdlucks steal the basketball prowess from Earth's greatest NBA players and transforming them into hulking monstrosities with the awesome skills of Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Muggsy Bogues, Shawn Bradley, and Larry Johnson. Realizing that they are outclassed by these new Monstars, Bugs Bunny turns to the Looney Tunes' only hope from eternal slavery at Moron Mountain. The one man who can match the Monstars' peerless skills on the court ... Michael Jordan to coach them.

Cast[]

  • Michael Jordan as Himself
  • Wayne Knight as Stanley "Stan" Podolak
  • Theresa Randle as Juanita Jordan
  • Bill Murray as Himself
  • Larry Bird as Himself
  • Thom Barry as James R. Jordan, Sr.
  • Manner Washington as Jeffrey Jordan
  • Eric Gordon as Marcus Jordan
  • Penny Bae Bridges as Jasmine Jordan
  • Charles Barkley as Himself
  • Patrick Ewing as Himself
  • Shawn Bradley as Himself
  • Larry Johnson as Himself
  • Muggsy Bogues as Himself
  • Billy West as Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd
  • Dee Bradley Baker as Daffy Duck, The Tasmanian Devil, Toro
  • Danny DeVito as Mister Swackhammer
  • Kath Soucie as Lola Bunny
  • Bob Bergen as Porky Pig, Tweety, Marvin the Martian, Hubie, Bertie
  • Bill Farmer as Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, The Road Runner, Sylvester
  • Maurice LaMarche as Pepe Le Pew
  • Jocelyn Blue as Pound
  • Charity James as Blanko
  • June Melby as Bang
  • Catherine Reitman as Bupkus
  • Colleen Wainwright as Nawt
  • Darnell Suttles as Pound
  • Steve Kehela as Blanko
  • Joey Camen as Bang
  • Dorian Harewood as Bupkus
  • T.K. Carter as Nawt
  • Patricia Heaton as Woman Fan

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