No list of the best movies of any given genre or subgenre would be complete without at least one campy, cult-classic, so-bad-it's-good entry. And when discussing basketball movies, the entry that fits that bill perfectly is 1979's "The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh" (per Lockhaven Express). After producing the 1976 classic "Car Wash," Gary Stromberg was looking to make another fantasy comedy romp that was heavily guided by a danceable '70s soundtrack (via Black Grooves). This time, instead of being placed in and around a car wash, the setting was the world of professional basketball — a highly-stylized and ridiculously over-the-top version of it, of course.
Whereas "Car Wash" featured a cast of some of the era's biggest musicians (plus a couple of comedians), "The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh" s stacked with the era's biggest basketball players (plus a couple of comedians). The impressive lineup of players includes Julius Irving, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Norm Nixon, and Spencer Haywood, with the comedian quota being filled by legends like Jonathan Winters and Flip Wilson. Like most films of its ilk, the production values are low but the music is excellent, the acting is wooden but everyone is clearly having a blast, and it's altogether a bad movie that still manages to be extremely entertaining.
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