Hustle

What happens at the end of Hustle? All about Stanley and Bo's basketball careers and the future of the Philadelphia 76ers.

The final scenes show Stanley preparing to go coach a game between the Sixers and the Celtics, which Bo is now part of. What happens at the end of the movie? Bo’s ex, Lucia’s mother, wanted to try and get full custody of Lucia (Ainhoa Pillet) after learning from her new boyfriend that doing so could get her money from the government.

Queen Latifah, Juancho Hernangomez, Robert Duvall, and Ben Foster co-star in Hustle, a sports drama about a basketball scout finding his way back to his ...

Between the sincerity shared by Sandler and Hernangomez and the high-level craft, Hustle provides enough diversions to hoist our hearts high, even if we wind up craving more specificity from these characters and their travails. And while the movie partly suffers for it, Hustle is still effectively tender. (Why none of these athletes spot the 6’9” Bo as a ringer stretches the imagination.) Bo is a single father who wants a better life for his young daughter, Lucia, and uses basketball as a solution. Hustle is decidedly glitzier and bigger than Zagar’s previous film, the critical indie darling We the Animals. It deploys an all-star ensemble, ingenious camerawork, and sharp editing to uplift a cliché story about earnest fatherhood and distant hoop dreams. But Stanley is tired of the road. And Sandler as weary NBA scout Stanley is the film’s rousing compass.

Adam Sandler's love of basketball makes all the difference in Jeremiah Zagar's sports drama, Hustle.

Of course, with this type of sports/training/mentor film, Hustle can’t help but fall into the occasional cliché, yet that focus on support and care and a dedication to helping others reach their potential make those platitudes go down a bit easier. Again, through the performance as Stanley, we can feel Sandler’s deep love for basketball coming through, a passion that feels earnest when coming from Sandler. This doesn’t feel like just acting, this feels like a genuine part of who he is. While Will Fetters and Taylor Materne’s screenplay is hitting many of the trainer-trainee tropes one would expect from a sports film, and Zagar’s direction fills Hustle with one too many training montages, they also turn this dynamic into an affecting relationship about two men who desperately need someone to believe in them and find that in each other. Stanley thinks he finds what he's looking for with a one-on-one basketball hustler, Bo Cruz (Juancho Hernangomez), who takes to the court in boots and lives with his mother and daughter. But as the team turns over to the manager’s son (Ben Foster), Stanley is sent back on the road, with promises that if he finds the team’s missing piece, he’ll be back in the coaching gig. He’s tired of spending weeks on the road, looking for the next great thing in basketball, and when the team’s owner (Robert Duvall) offers him an assistant coach position, it looks like he’s finally where he’s wanted to be for so long.

"Hustle" doesn't score any points for originality. Yet Adam Sandler's latest Netflix film -- produced with, among others, LeBron James -- mostly works in ...

, Sandler is in his element as the shambling scout with a wealth of knowledge at his disposal but not always the courage to speak up. They include, but aren't limited to, Julius Erving, Dirk Nowitzki, Doc Rivers, and TNT's Kenny Smith, the last actually playing a character and, like Hernangómez, doing a perfectly fine job of it. Here, Sandler's Stanley Sugerman is a well-traveled scout for the Philadelphia 76ers, who stumbles on a streetball hustler in Spain, Bo Cruz (NBA player Juancho Hernangómez), whose lockdown defensive skills prompt Stanley to describe the guy more than once as being "like Scottie Pippen and a wolf had a baby."

Adam Sandler, Queen Latifah and a whole roster of notable professional basketball players star in Netflix's newly released sports drama Hustle, ...

What was your favorite song from the Hustle soundtrack? He goes behind his team’s back to recruit a virtual nobody off the street who happens to be extremely talented. Adam Sandler, Queen Latifah and a whole roster of notable professional basketball players star in Netflix’s newly released sports drama Hustle, which is now streaming on the platform.

In what appears to be a leaked video clip from the Adam Sandler and LeBron James-produced basketball movie, "Hustle," the role Minnesota Timberwolves rising ...

"Where's her mom at?" You should tell her to shack it up with me. But if you want to see a two-minute clip of Edwards being the villain, here you go.

As it turns out, he's also got some pretty good acting chops. Edwards is one of the several current and former basketball players who appear in the film Hustle, ...

While Juancho Hernangómez is the hooper at the center of the film, Edwards plays Kermit Wilts, his rival. Edwards is one of the several current and former basketball players who appear in the film Hustle, which released on Netflix on Wednesday after having a limited theatrical release last week. Anthony Edwards is rapidly becoming the most entertaining person in basketball.

Hustle, a passion project for Adam Sandler now streaming on Netflix, works its smooth moves and ends with a satisfying whoosh.

Watching him learn to fight for what he wants is one of the movie’s quiet pleasures. He’s been at it a long time and he’s tired of the endless travel, which takes him away from his wife, Teresa (Latifah), and teenage daughter, Alex (Jordan Hull), for long stretches. Defying orders, Stanley brings Bo back to Philly anyway, putting him up in a hotel at his own expense. This wunderkind’s name is Bo Cruz (played by Hernangómez), and he lives with his mother and young daughter (Mariá Botto and Ainhoa Pillet), supporting them by doing construction work. Only after Stanley manages to seal the deal does he get bad news from his boss: Vince doesn’t like the look of the kid and wants Stanley to keep searching. Yet somehow director Jeremiah Zagar and his actors—among them Queen Latifah and pro basketball player Juancho Hernangómez, making his movie debut—manage to inflict a kind of magical amnesia, making you forget you’ve already seen it all just before they show it to you all over again.

Things could have gone either way for Hustle, the shot-in-Philly Adam Sandler basketball flick. Here are some Hustle reviews.

A look at Hustle reviews around the country show that a lot of people are enjoying this movie. AV Club: “Sports-themed movies are at their best when they focus on the human-interest story at their core. “It looks terrible.” That’s what a basketball-loving colleague told me after he saw the trailer for Hustle, the brand-new Adam Sandler basketball movie that was shot in Philadelphia. And, as I told Hustle director Jeremiah Zagar, a Philly native, I didn’t think I was going to like it either.

Adam Sandler and the Utah Jazz player Juancho Hernangómez lead an unsentimental sports drama in which success is tenuous and one mistake can derail a dream.

Anthony Edwards, the Minnesota Timberwolves’s 20-year-old rising star known as Ant-Man ( himself the No. 1 draft pick in 2020), excels in the riskiest role as a trash-talking villain who deserves to have a sweat sock shoved in his mouth. The glowering N.B.A. goofball Boban Marjanovic, of the Dallas Mavericks, gets in several good quips as an aspirant who shaves a decade off his age, and the player-turned-commentator Kenny Smith capably handles a sizable part as a high-powered agent. Cruz and Stanley’s mental and physical preparations for the draft are an uphill struggle in the literal sense, with Stanley shaking his prospect awake at 4 a.m. to run the streets of Philadelphia while shouting obscenities at him to thicken his skin. It casually clocks the rainbow of Lamborghinis outside an arena parking lot without going in for a belabored close-up. In real life, Hernangómez is a power forward for the Utah Jazz. Onscreen, he’s a breezy, quietly charismatic presence who allows Sandler to do the bellowing, then delivers a punchline right to the ribs. Fewer than 500 players are in the N.B.A. at any given time; gathered together, the players who have ascended to its ranks since it was founded in 1946 would not even come close to filling up Madison Square Garden. In the movie, Adam Sandler, a real-life devotee of the game, plays a weary scout for the Philadelphia 76ers named Stanley Sugerman who has spent his life sizing up potential rookies by their height, wingspan, speed and emotional fortitude.

By now you'd think you know what you're getting with an Adam Sandler sports movie.

But for a sport that has only occasionally been captured authentically by the movies, “Hustle” has genuine flow. "Hustle,” a Netflix release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for language. Some might say “Hustle” verges close to NBA advertisement, but Zagar, a South Philly native who emerged with the 2018 indie “We the Animals," frames the pros who populate his film like people and players, rather than stars. “Hustle" is a more amiable film, less interested in prying into the underpinnings of the league. With each appearance, the distance between “Hustle” and the actual NBA grows increasingly small. Starring Sandler as a road-weary NBA scout and with several teams' worth of all-stars in cameos, “Hustle” has a surprisingly good handle and feel for the game.

The Netflix comedy-drama mines the star's obsession with the game, as well as his experiences in the entertainment industry.

The essentially documentary element of the fine points of basketball is the core charm of “Hustle,” extending also to the hard-nosed view of Stanley’s professional life and the web of connections that is fundamental to his ability to get things done. I need you to finish through the contact”; “It’s you against you out there, and right now you is kicking your ass”; “It’s about the next shot and the next shot and the next shot”; “A good player knows where he is on the court. Bo, though clearly a star in the making (Stanley says, “The kid is like if Scottie Pippen and a wolf had a baby”), doesn’t yet have the physical conditioning, the mental outlook, or the skill set of players who can turn pro—players who, at colleges in the U.S. or on international teams, have had the benefit of infrastructure and coaching. “Hustle” is in the genre of avocational cinema, in which the star combines his passion for basketball with his understanding that it’s also a business—and with his experience of the entertainment industry at large. That’s what he does in Judd Apatow’s “ Funny People,” in the role of a famous comedian, and in the Safdie brothers’ “ Uncut Gems,” in the role of a bling jeweller with a sports-gambling problem. Vince orders Stanley to cut ties with Bo, but Stanley is sure of the young man’s ability and character, and has already made a commitment to him and to his mother (María Botto). Stanley takes matters into his own hands: he quits to develop Bo’s talent independently in preparation for the N.B.A. draft.

Sandler interpreta a Stanley Sugarman, un cazatalentos de los Philadelphia 76ers, que pasa sus días dando vueltas por el mundo buscando al próximo Dirk Nowitzki ...

“Hustle”, un lanzamiento de Netflix, tiene una calificación R de la Motion Picture Association of America por su idioma. Allí ve a un trabajador de la construcción llamado Bo Cruz (interpretado por el jugador de la NBA Juancho Hernangómez) cuyo talento está por las nubes, incluso jugando en Timberlands. Stanley, fascinado por la destreza defensiva y de tiro de Bo, sigue a Bo hasta su casa para reclutarlo para los Sixers. Después de una pelea con Vince, Stanley se dedica a conseguir que Bo entre en el draft de la NBA. En el camino, Sandler puede darle su propio giro a ese legendario tipo de película deportiva, el hombre de entrenamiento duro. Protagonizada por Sandler como un cazatalentos de la NBA cansado de la carretera y con estrellas de varios equipos en cameos, “Hustle” tiene un manejo y una sensación sorprendentemente buenos para el juego. Pero para un deporte que sólo ocasionalmente ha sido capturado auténticamente por las películas, “Hustle” tiene un flujo genuino. Pero en “Hustle”, la nueva película de baloncesto de Sandler en Netflix, hace un cruce. Y Sandler infunde en Sugarman no solo la obsesión genuina por el baloncesto, sino también la lucha común de la mediana edad de encontrar sólo ingratitud de un empleador después de media vida de servicio incansable —incluso si su guardarropa de camisetas y pantalones cortos de malla podría haber salido directamente de su armario.

Luka Doncic is one of the many NBA players to have made a cameo in the LeBron James and Adam Sandler-produced movie 'Hustle'. The movie is a Netflix ...

His portrayal of basketball in 'Uncut Gems', which featured Kevin Garnett, was great, and Hustle is proving to be an incredibly enjoyable watch for basketball fans. Boban Marjanovic is a part of the movie as a '22-year-old' player. During a montage of them showing the clips go viral, Doncic appears and says, “Holy s**t! Bo Cruz! Where did this kid come from?”.

In the drama, big-time basketball fan Sandler plays Stanley Sugerman, a down on his luck Philadelphia 76ers talent scout, who finds himself fighting to save his ...

The former NBA player began his coaching career in 1999 with the Orlando Magic and won Coach of the Year during his first season with the team. The eccentric Goldstein, known for his unique fashion sense, has never played basketball, but he’s a NBA legend in his own right. The “Big Serbian” is the first player Stanley meets in the opening scene of Hustle. He claims he’s 22 years old, the maximum age a player can be to enter the draft, and that a “big fire” destroyed his birth certificate. The two-time MVP and Rookie of the Year joined the Chicago Sky in 2021. Thybulle has played for the 76ers since entering the League in 2019 and has become known for his defensive prowess. In Stevens’ first year as president, the Celtics managed to make it to the 2022 NBA Finals. Known as the “ Round Mound of Rebound,” the former Phoenix Suns player was an 11-time All Star and was named the League’s MVP in 1993. The former Laker and commentator on Inside the NBA is one of Bo’s famous fans. The former Toronto Raptors star who helped Drake’s favorite NBA team win its first championship in 2019, shows up in the film to watch Bo hoop and throw a little shade. The problem is, Stanley seems to be the only one in Philly who believes the young athlete has the goods to make it in the NBA. On his journey, he runs into basketball icons, members of the current 76ers roster, and Anthony Edwards. No, not the actor who plays Goose in Top Gun, but the young star of the Minnesota Timberwolves. Viewers first see the Philadelphia 76ers legend slam dunking at the age of 63 in a viral video Stanley shows his teenage daughter. Not all of the current and former NBA stars in the film play themselves, which gives these guys a chance to really show off their acting skills.