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...movie, a starting varsity point guard and apparent Adams House resident (Adrian Greiner) gets involved with gamblers, LSD and the Hottest Holy Cross Cheerleader In Recorded History (Sarah Michelle Gellar). Somehow, the latter item only makes the first two worse, and Greiner??a philosophy concentrator who sleeps with one of his professors and whose rantings about existentialism pepper the film with more unintentional comedy than a Celebrity Boxing marathon—finds his life spinning out of control...
...interesting moves. Toback employed former WHRB broadcasters Chris Wolfe ’01 and Brian Schulz ’01, adding a nice degree of authenticity—even though Schulz and Wolfe were the hockey voices of the Crimson, and usually a touch more out of breath. Greiner??s play calls to mind aspects of Drew Gellert—on a very bad day, perhaps, but Gellert nonetheless. Admirably, the Harvard uniforms worn by Greiner and his teammate, played by NBA All-Star Ray Allen, are the real deal, and the gym is an admirable attempt...
...funniest thing about the movie. His utterance of the line, “Girls and winning, that’s why I play Harvard basketball,” is one of the more side-splitting lines of all-time. The scene in which he holds a gun to Greiner??s head once he (correctly) suspects his teammate has been throwing games? Also priceless...
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