Blue Chips

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Blue Chips

Poster for Blue Chips
Directed by William Friedkin
Produced by Ron Shelton
Written by Ron Shelton
Starring Nick Nolte
Music by Jeff Beck
Nile Rodgers
Cinematography Tom Priestly Jr.
Editing by Robert K. Lambert
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) February 18, 1994
Running time 108 min.
Country Flag of the United States
Language English
Budget $9 million
Gross revenue $22,355,000
IMDb profile

Blue Chips is a 1994 drama film about basketball, starring Nick Nolte as a college coach and real-life basketball stars Shaquille O'Neal, Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway and Matt Nover as talented finds.

It features cameos from Bobby Knight, Rick Pitino, Bob Cousy, Larry Bird, Jerry Tarkanian, Dick Vitale, Jim Boeheim, and Louis Gossett, Jr..

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[edit] Plot

Pete Bell (Nick Nolte), a college basketball coach for the Western University Dolphins, is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he can't attract any new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by other teams. This practice is forbidden in the college game, but Pete is desperate and has pressures from all around after a losing season. Greedy "friend of the program", Happy (JT Walsh), will stop at nothing to get these star players. This includes giving a Lexus to Neon Bodeaux, and a house to Butch's mother. He also gives a tractor to Ricky's father as well as "bags of cash," just to sign these players up. He will even go as far as to buy one of them a nuclear surfboard, which makes him run to the cash machine. With Ed (Ed O'Neill) hard on the case, Pete continues to cover himself with dirty lies and money.

This movie was filmed in Frankfort, Indiana.

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[edit] Quotes

  • Pete: Can somebody get this kid a prophylactic!
  • Pete: The pentecostal? Hell I grew up in the pentecostal!
  • Pete: You got a future in politics, ***hole. Why don't you run for office?
  • Pete: There goes Happy, headed for the cash machine!
  • Neon: This class is culturally biased.
  • Pete: Every time we get ready to play I just want to throw up.

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Films directed by William Friedkin
Good Times (1967) • The Birthday Party (1968) • The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968) • The Boys in the Band (1970) • The French Connection (1971) • The Exorcist (1973) • Sorcerer (1977) • The Brink's Job (1978) • Cruising (1980) • Deal of the Century (1983) • To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) • Rampage (1988) • The Guardian (1990) • Blue Chips (1994) • Jade (1995) • Rules of Engagement (2000) • The Hunted (2003) • Bug (2007)