Space Jam
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| Directed by | Joe Pytka |
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| Music by | James Newton Howard |
| Cinematography | Michael Chapman |
| Edited by | Sheldon Kahn |
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Warner Bros. Feature Animation
Northern Lights Entertainment Courtside Seats Productions Warner Bros. Family Entertainment |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $80 million |
| Box office | $230.4 million |
Space Jam is a 1996 American live-action/animated sports comedy film starring basketball player Michael Jordan and featuring the Looney Tunes cartoon characters. The film was produced by Ivan Reitman, and directed by Joe Pytka, with Tony Cervone and Bruce W. Smith directing the animation. Nigel Miguel was a basketball technical advisor.
Released theatrically by Warner Bros. under the Family Entertainment label on November 15, 1996, the film tells a fictional alternate history of what happened between Jordan's initial retirement from the NBA in 1993 and his comeback in 1995, in which he becomes embroiled in events involving Bugs Bunny and his friends. Space Jam opened at No. 1 in the US and grossed over $230 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing basketball film of all-time.
In 1993, professional basketball player Michael Jordan announces his retirement from the sport to follow his late father's career as a baseball player. However, it becomes evident that he is not as skilled in baseball as he was in basketball. Jordan is assigned a publicist and assistant, the bumbling Stan Podolak, to make his new career less bumpy. Elsewhere, in outer space, an intergalactic amusement park called Moron Mountain faces dwindling popularity, so its owner, Mr. Swackhammer, sends his diminutive minions, the Nerdlucks, to capture the Looney Tunes as new entertainment. The Looney Tunes live in an animated world hidden in the center of the Earth, but ignore the Nerdlucks' threats and challenge them to a game of basketball.
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