BASEketball

BASEketball
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDavid Zucker
Written by
Produced by
  • David Zucker
  • Robert LoCash
  • Gil Netter[1]
Starring
CinematographySteven Mason[1]
Edited byJeffrey Reiner
Music byIra Newborn[1]
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures[1]
Release date
  • July 31, 1998 (1998-07-31)
Running time
103 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States[1]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$25 million[3]
Box office$7 million[4]

BASEketball is a 1998 American sports comedy film cowritten and directed by David Zucker, starring South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and costarring Yasmine Bleeth, Jenny McCarthy, Robert Vaughn, Ernest Borgnine and Dian Bachar.

The film is about BASEketball, a hybrid sport combining baseball and basketball, invented by Zucker in the 1980s. Parker and Stone play childhood friends who envision it as something they could win against athletes. It becomes an overnight sensation and a target of corporate sponsorship.

This is the only work involving the stars that was neither written, directed nor produced by them. It was a box office disappointment with mixed critical reviews and is credited with coining the slang term "derp".[5][6]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "BASEKetball (1998)". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on May 3, 2018. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
  2. ^ "Baseketball". British Board of Film Classification. Archived from the original on March 11, 2023. Retrieved January 20, 2017.
  3. ^ "BASEketball". Bomb Report. January 24, 2022. Archived from the original on February 27, 2023. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
  4. ^ "BASEketball (1998)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on June 23, 2016. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
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