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The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh | 
| Director: Gilbert Moses
Actors: Julius Erving, Jonathan Winters, Meadowlark Lemon, Jack Kehoe, Kareem Abdul-jabbar
Studio: Warner Home Video
Buy New: $99.95
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Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 390
Format: Color, Hifi Sound, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 102
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6301650425
UPC: 012569030138
EAN: 9786301650427
ASIN: 6301650425
Theatrical Release Date: 1979
Release Date: April 1, 1992
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Description
Slapstick comedy about a losing basketball team. At the end of their rope, the players decide to try astrology - it can't hurt, right? Features a disco soundtrack.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 23 more reviews...
 The Fish Saves Atlanta? November 10, 2008
Growing up in the 1970's, times were great. Big Wheels and Green Machines. Bomb Pops to Italian Ice. Mr. Softee and those amazing soft serve ice cream cones with sprinkles. Metal roller skates and banana seat bicycles. But nothing speaks more of the 70's than the movie, "The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh". In a time when things were more simple, The Fish, told a tale of a basketball team who needed a miracle, a found in the cards or should I say Psychic. Needless to say the moral of the story is about beliefs. It's OK to have beliefs in other things as along as you believe in yourself first. Now that I live in Atlanta, finding this great comedic tale was certainly an excellent find. "The Fish" reminds me of those summer days and simpler times, yet again saving me from what's going in the world today, if only for an 1 hour and 20 min.
I loved this movie and i love this movie May 6, 2008
yeah get em tell it like it is this movie was cool i cant beleave how some people on here are trying to be siskel and ebert qbert or whatever you call them critics you see that how much i paid mind to there names anyway six stars peace.I GOT TWO VHS,ONE LP SOUNTRACK AND SEARCHING FOR THE CD.
It Is All In The Stars March 27, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It is all in an astrological sign to make hardwood stars.
This sports comedy features some great comics - Jonathan Winters & Flip Wilson - great musicians for the soundtrack - Doc Severinsen, The Four Tops, The Spinners & The Sylvers - and an all-star cast of pro basketball players, with Julius Erving in the leading role as Moses Guthrie, in a special spin of a lousy team becoming a championship contender.
The Pittsburgh Pythons are so bad that ownership falls into the hands of young locker room attendant Tyrone Millman (James Bond III). With Guthrie as the only star - and not too popular with the other players - Millman has got to come up with a new plan, and fast.
It just so happens that Millman has a hobby in astrology and he hires astrologer Mona Mondieu (Stockard Channing) to assist in turning the franchise around. Mondieu says that all players must be born under the same astrological sign - Pisces - which conveniently is the same sign as Guthrie's, and that is where the impossible dream of the newly-named Pittsburgh Pisces going from worst to first sets sail.
Chick Hearn and Marv Albert do great jobs announcing the action, with Meadowlark Lemon (the Rev. Grady Jackson) nearly stealing the show with his wit. Jerry Tarkanian, Lou Hudson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood and Bob Lanier provide the star power on the court and the Pisces' home floor is something to see.
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh provides enough laughs and continued interest from fans to warrant Sony Pictures to finally release it on DVD.
MUCH LOVE 2 "DR J* ERVING" BABY U ARE A TRUE-LEGEND...SHOT-OUT 2 JAMES BONDSIII & MARGARET "SHUGH" AVERY! 70'S AT IT'S BEST!!!! August 10, 2005
5 out of 17 found this review helpful
``````````SO GO AHEAD, BE SHALLOW & MARK NO 2 MY REVIEW!````````
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I AM MS' JERSEY1 AKA THE TRUTH<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
``````````````````````````>THE BLUNT 1<`````````````````````````
WHAT? THIS MOVIE WAS cheesy!? --NO Y'ALL "NEED" 2 STAY OFF THAT
SHERM!!!! *LOVE IT OR HATE IT YOU MUST GIVE R.E.S.P.E.C.T
2 "JULIUS ERVING" HE COULD BE Y'ALL DADDY "YOU KNOW"!!!! I KEEP
SEEING FOLKS WRITING DOG---T ABOUT AGE STEREOTYPES LIKE "if
you're 30 & older you can relate 2 certain "OLD SCHOOL" music
or movies"... WELL I'M WRITING 2 PROOVE ALL OF YOU SHALLOW
FOLKS WROOOONG!!!! *MOST PEOPLE WERE KIDS IN 79' WHEN "THE FISH
THAT SAVED PITTSBURGH" DROPPED & THEY STILL WATCH IT TODAY!!!! -
-SO I AS WELL AS MANY OTHERS KNOW "THAT'S UTTERLY ABSURD"...
WHEN YOU GROW-UP WATCHING OR LISTENING 2 CERTAIN MUSIC & MOVIES
YOU THEN IN YOUR ADULT YEARS APPRECIATE THEM MORE! *I'M OLD-
SCHOOL TO MY HEART & I WILL REMAIN-THE-SAME!!!!
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"THE FISH THAT SAVED PITTSBURGH" IS SIMPLY ABOUT THE POWER
OF "ASTROLOGY" & TRUE-TALENT!! MOSES/JULIUS E. WAS THE STAR HE
COULDN'T CUT IT WITH HIS' 1ST TEAM SO HIS COACH "FLIP WILSON"
OPTED 2 TRADE HIM... LATER THAT DAY TRY-OUT WERE BEING HELD IN
THE GYMNASIUM & EVERY CULTURE YOU COULD CONCEIVE SHOWED UP!
MOSES WAS INSPIRED 2 KEEP PURSUING BASKETBALL THROUGH THE HELP
OF "JAMES BOND III" --A 14-TEEN YEAR OLD "WATER BOY". JAMES
WHOM LIVED AT HOME WITH HIS' SISTER "MARGARET AVERY", WHOM
ENCOURAGED HIM 2 STAY IN HIS' BOOKS!! JAMES OPTS 2 SEEK
ASSISTANCE FROM A PSYHIC/ASTROLOGIST "THE CHICK FROM GREASE"...
SHE SCHOOLS THE TEAM ABOUT HOW SIGNIFICANT "ASTROLOGY" IS IN
ORDER 2 BEAT THE OPPOSING TEAM!!!! THEY TAKE HEED 2 HER ADVICE
& SHE BECOMES THE "HEAD COACH"... THEY THEN BECOME "THE PISCES"
THEN THEY GET NEW UNIFORMS & NEW ATTITUDES 2 MATCH!! BEFORE
THEIR LAST GAME THE COACH FROM THE OPPOSING TEAM HIRES 2
SPANISH DUDES 2 KID-NAP THE PSYCHIC... [Y'ALL MIGHT RECOGNIZE
THE SHORT 1 AS THE CABBIE FROM MAXWELLS' SUMTHIN' SUMTHIN'
VIDEO]--IF Y'ALL WAS PAYING ATTENTION?!
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THE PSYCHIC DRIVES OFF WITH THEIR LINCOLN & HEAD BACKS 2 THE
GAME 2 WATCH "THE PISCES" MAKE A COME-BACK THEN WIN 116 TO
115!! LIKE WHOA! MOSES/JULIUS & MARGARET HOOKS-UP, *I WOULD'VE
GOT WITH HIS' FINE A** TOO BABY --I LOVE YOU JULIUS!!!! OH I
LOVED THE CAMEOS BY: DEBBIE ALLEN, JULIUS CARRY III "SHO' NUFF
FROM The Last Dragon" & I CAN'T FORGET "MR. FLIP WILSON" R.I.P
BABY!!!! --*YOU OPENED THE DOORS 4 UP & COMING COMEDIANS
LIKE: "TYLER PERRY, MARTIN LAWRENCE & JAMIE FOXX, YOU ARE TRULY
MISSED AND NEVER FORGOTTEN!!!! >RE-SPECT<
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I LOVED JAMES BOND III IN THIS & IN "DEF BY TEMPTATION" WITH
SAMUEL L. JACKSON... JAMES IS SO INTELLECTUALLY-BUILT 4 THIS
DOG-EAT-DOG INDUSTRY!!!! >KEEP DOING YOUR THING BABY, YOU ARE
HERE!!!!< ***2 THE REVIEWER WHO WROTE THAT THIS IS THE BEST
MOVIE OF "ALL TIMES", YOU ARE RIIIGHT!!!! "THE FISH THAT SAVE
PITTSBURGH" PUT ALL OTHER BASKETBALL FILMS ON THE MAP
LIKE "HOOP DREAMS", SUNSET PARK & COACH CARTER ETC...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>SO DON'T FORGET 2 PAY H O M A G E<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
*******I CAN'T FORGET MUCH PROPS 2 DIRECTOR "GILBERT MOSES" 4
PRODUCING "A HALL-OF-FAM MOVIE"... "EXCELLENT CHOICE OF
CHARACTERS" --EXCELLENT!! ***JULIUS "DR. JAY" WHERE ARE YOU
BABY!? --LOOK ME UP...HAA HA
///////////////I'M NOT DONE, READ ALL OF MY REVIEWS/////////////
 Good nostalgic family film May 25, 2005
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
My mother took my brother and me to see this at the movies. In the 70's there were so few positive movies for African-American children. As an adult, I had searched and searched for it, and, fortunately my husband found it and purchased it for me for my birthday.
To be sure, the plot isn't strong, but it doesn't have to be--it's got Dr. J (and a host of other 70's/80's basketball stars), Debbie Allen and the Sylvers! If you're at least 30, you can watch it and reminisce. If you have children they can watch it, too, since it doesn't have profanity or sex. And, its a story about the underdog overcoming adversity and the low expectations of others to succeed.
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