The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979)
Director:
Gilbert Moses
Actors:
Moses Guthrie
H.S. Tilson
Rev. Grady Jackson
Setshot
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Rating:
(1’360 votes)
(1’360 votes)
Quotes:
« Moses Guthrie: I'm a Pisces, man. We need a little stroke from time to time.
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« Lucian Tucker: You may be jivin' these chumps, but you ain't jivin' me.
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« Moses Guthrie: I ain't jivin' nobody.
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« Lucian Tucker: Hey, the name's Tucker, not sucker.
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« Coach 'Jock' Delaney: I want you to take a few more shots out there.
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« Moses Guthrie: Hey, maybe I ought to sit, coach. I'm cold.
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« Coach 'Jock' Delaney: I don't care. Shoot! They're leaving you open.
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« Lucian Tucker: So he's open. They don't want to waste a man playing one on none.
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Trailer:
Trailer
Runtime:102 minutes
Plots:
The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania basketball team is hopeless. Could they become winners with help from an astrologer and some new astrologically-compatible players?
The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become winners.
The Pittsburgh Pythons are the worst team in the NBA. Most of the players think the reason they are in the cellar is that they feel that Moses Guthrie (Julius Winfield Erving II) is monopolizing the spotlight. So when they walk out, the towel boy, Tyrone Millman (James Bond III), decides to consult with an astrologist, Mona Mondieu (Stockard Channing). He goes to the owner and suggests they get players who are born under the same zodiac sign as Guthrie: Pisces. They hold tryouts and they choose some weirdos, but when they play together, they are phenomenal. When they start winning, the owner decides to rename the team the “Pisces”.
