Slam Dunk Ernest

Jun 20, 1995

1h 33m

★ 4.3

Overview

Ernest P. Worrell becomes a basketball star after an angel bearing an uncanny resemblance to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gives him a pair of magic sneakers.

Genres

Comedy

Family

Romance

Production Companies

Emshell Producers

Pacific Motion Pictures

Touchstone Home Entertainment

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Cast

Ernest P. Worrell

Jim Varney

Barry

Cylk Cozart

Quincy

Aaron Joseph

Little Ernest

A.J. Bond

Archangel

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

T.J.

Miguel A. Núñez Jr.

Willie

Lester Barrie

Tommy T.

Colin Lawrence

Walter

Richard Leacock

Mr. Moloch

Jay Brazeau

Head Guard

Douglas Newell

Mr. Ellis

Henry O. Watson

Four overweight friends from the Israeli city of Ramle are fed up of dieting and the dieting club they belong to. When Herzl (155 kilos), the main protagonist, loses his job as a cook and starts working as a dishwasher in a Japanese restaurant in Ramle he discovers the world of Sumo where large people such as himself are honored and appreciated. Through Kitano (60 kilos), the restaurant owner, a former Sumo coach in Japan (who is supposedly hiding from the Yakuza in Israel), he falls in love with a sport involving "two fatsos in diapers and girly hairdos". Herzl wants Kitano to be their coach but Kitano is reluctant - they first have to earn their spurs. "A MATTER OF SIZE" is a comedy about a ‘coming out’ of a different kind - overweight people learning to accept themselves.

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