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Released
1992 · FILM

White Men Can't Jump

A brash white streetball hustler and a sharp‑tongued Black counterpart join forces to outplay rival scammers and pull off the ultimate basketball con in Los Angeles.

“It ain't easy being this good.”

Directed by
Ron Shelton, Susan Moen
Written by
Ron Shelton
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
115 min
ComedySport
Streaming on
  • Disney+

Synopsis

Two street basketball hustlers attempt to con each other before ultimately joining forces to pursue a larger score.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 271+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Kimberly RayShot by Russell BoydScored by Wayne PeetDesigned by J Dennis WashingtonSound by David E Campbell Nm0132372Costumes by Francine Jamison TanchuckStunts by Julius Leflore

Box Office

1992 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$90.8M

Budget$31.0M
Worldwide gross$90.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $76.3M — 84% of worldwide · International: $14.5M (16%)

Opening weekend: $14.7M — 19% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $18.9M — 25% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,923 theaters

Versions & cuts

  • video· 118 min

Also known as

  • Weiße Jungs bringen’s nichtde
  • Les Blancs ne savent pas sauterfr
  • Chi non salta bianco èit
  • (Bulgarian)Белите не могат да скачат
Release dates around the world5 countries · show
  • United StatesMar 27, 1992
  • AustraliaAug 6, 1992
  • SpainOct 9, 1992
  • United KingdomOct 9, 1992
  • GreeceOct 9, 1992

Production & Distribution

Production
20th Century Fox

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