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Futuresport
Sign in to saveFuturesport is a 1998 American made-for-television sports film directed by Ernest Dickerson, starring Dean Cain, Vanessa Williams, and Wesley Snipes. It originally aired on ABC in October 1998, was released on VHS and DVD in March 1999 and then distributed outside of the U.S. by Minerva Pictures.
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4.3In the not too distant future, a new deadly sport is the only way to stop a war that will kill millions. Fix is the creator of the sport, but the spotlight has always been on Ramzey. Now this hothead must use the game to stop the Revolution.
Cast
- Dean Cain as Tremaine 'Tre' Ramzey
- Vanessa Williams as Alexandra 'Alex' Torres
- Wesley Snipes as Obike Fixx
- Valerie Chow as Jet Yuen
- Adrian G. Griffiths as Blake Becker
- Bill Smitrovich as Coach Douglas
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- television film
- Genre
- science fiction film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- terrorism
- Director
- Ernest Dickerson
- Screenwriter
- Robert Hewitt Wolfe
- Cast member
- Wesley Snipes
- Composer
- Stewart Copeland
- Narrative location
- Los Angeles
- Filming location
- Vancouver
- Duration
- 95
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1998-01-01
- title
- Futuresport
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
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- Plot
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Futuresport is a 1998 American made-for-television sports film directed by Ernest Dickerson, starring Dean Cain, Vanessa Williams, and Wesley Snipes. It originally aired on ABC in October 1998, was released on VHS and DVD in March 1999 and then distributed outside of the U.S. by Minerva Pictures.
==Plot== The film is set in 2025, and centers on a sport called "Futuresport" (a combination of basketball, baseball and hockey that uses hoverboards and rollerblades) created as a non-lethal way to reduce gang warfare. Tre Ramzey (Dean Cain) along with his ex-girlfriend Alex Torres (Vanessa Williams) and his old coach Obike Fixx (Wesley Snipes) must prevent an all out war between the North American Alliance and the Pan-Pacific Commonwealth (The Com). At stake is who rules over the Hawaiian Islands—which are being terrorized by Eric Sythe (JR Bourne) and his gang the Hawaiian Liberation Organization (Hilo). It takes a revolutionary sport to stop a revolution.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Futuresport” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.