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The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania basketball team is hopeless. Could they become winners with help from an astrologer and some new astrologically-compatible players?The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania basketball team is hopeless. Could they become winners with help from an astrologer and some new astrologically-compatible players?The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania basketball team is hopeless. Could they become winners with help from an astrologer and some new astrologically-compatible players?
Marv Albert
- Marv Albert
- (as Marvin Albert)
Debbie Allen
- Ola
- (as Debra Allen)
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Did you know
- TriviaIn "The Book of Basketball", Bill Simmons mentions that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar vanished from the climactic game's fourth quarter without explanation. Simmons wrote that he researched and found two possible explanations: the shooting schedule was far behind, so Kareem had to leave the set and wasn't able to return, or Kareem found out that Julius Erving was being paid more than him and angrily walked off the production. In 2013, Erving revealed that Kareem was fired from the film when he sat in Director of Photography Frank Stanley's chair, Stanley kindly asked Kareem for his seat back, and Kareem responded by heaving the chair across the basketball court.
- GoofsThe score before the timeout of the last game was Los Angeles 101, Pittsburgh 91, but when the game resumed, the Pisces made well over ten field goals. Their victory should have been by a double-digit margin.
- Quotes
Moses Guthrie: I'm a Pisces, man. We need a little stroke from time to time.
- Alternate versionsABC edited 8 minutes from this film for its 1982 network television premiere.
- SoundtracksA Theme For L.A.'s Team
Music by Thom Bell
Performed by The Thom Bell Orchestra featuring Doc Severinsen
Featured review
Simple (guilty?) Pleasure
Not the greatest movie ever made and I love it. There is something easy, cheesy, and sweet about this mostly typical root-for-the-underdog story.
Watch the movie, with some friends if possible, and be willing and able to talk, laugh, eat, intake, and maybe dance along with it. perfect for a rainy weekend, college dorm, missed flight kinda day.
The Fish also makes for a good combo movie day with: carwash, caddyshack, badnews bears, and if you wanna see it like I did the first time, rent "Love at First Bite" and watch them back to back, now there's a freaky 70s time capsule.
I think this movie is fun and just a great exit into silliness with a simple heartwarming chunk of cheese. What also added to my enjoyment of the films is that I watched this movie first as a seven year old, in Brooklyn in the now non-existent Duffield theater, (or was it the Metropolitian, eh- they're both gone now anyway) and that the great Dr. J (who was Jordan, Kobe, and LeBron before such types existed) made his motion picture debut in it and was the closest thing to serious in the film. Which to me worked well because this flick needed a straight man and he was it.
I would say the film itself deserves credit for being a picture postcard of the late seventies, over blown with the not quite released 60s psychedelia that never really left through the 70s decade, and full of garish, tackiness, thats fun to watch and laugh at. Its a bonus if you are interested in the period or lived it and haven't seen how over the top Hollywood presented everything.
Watch the movie, with some friends if possible, and be willing and able to talk, laugh, eat, intake, and maybe dance along with it. perfect for a rainy weekend, college dorm, missed flight kinda day.
The Fish also makes for a good combo movie day with: carwash, caddyshack, badnews bears, and if you wanna see it like I did the first time, rent "Love at First Bite" and watch them back to back, now there's a freaky 70s time capsule.
I think this movie is fun and just a great exit into silliness with a simple heartwarming chunk of cheese. What also added to my enjoyment of the films is that I watched this movie first as a seven year old, in Brooklyn in the now non-existent Duffield theater, (or was it the Metropolitian, eh- they're both gone now anyway) and that the great Dr. J (who was Jordan, Kobe, and LeBron before such types existed) made his motion picture debut in it and was the closest thing to serious in the film. Which to me worked well because this flick needed a straight man and he was it.
I would say the film itself deserves credit for being a picture postcard of the late seventies, over blown with the not quite released 60s psychedelia that never really left through the 70s decade, and full of garish, tackiness, thats fun to watch and laugh at. Its a bonus if you are interested in the period or lived it and haven't seen how over the top Hollywood presented everything.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Hur jag torskade i Pittsburgh
- Filming locations
- Production company
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Box office
- Budget
- $4,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $8,281,246
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $12,922
- Nov 4, 1979
- Gross worldwide
- $8,281,246
- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979) officially released in Canada in English?
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