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The 6th Man

1997 · 108 min

A light, warm sports comedy with a ghostly twist, balancing humor and grief as it follows a team's unlikely comeback.

Directed by
Randall Miller
Genres
Fantasy, Drama, Comedy
Tagline
They're lifting the game to a higher level
Overview
A college athlete returns from the dead to help his brother's basketball team win the NCAA title.

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Directed by
Randall Miller
Genres
Fantasy, Drama, Comedy
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • family
  • friendship
  • identity
  • love
Places
  • single country house
  • home
  • road trip
Era
near-future
Audience
teen
Form
  • twist ending
  • nonlinear
  • unreliable narrator
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror1
Humour6
Realism6
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Genres
fantasy, drama, comedy
Directed by
Randall Miller
Written by
Christopher Reed, Cynthia Carle, Don Rhymer
Starring
Marlon Wayans, Kadeem Hardison, David Paymer, Michael Michele, Octavia Spencer, Saundra McClain, Harold Sylvester, Kevin Dunn
Music
Marcus Miller, Vassal Benford
Cinematography
Mike Ozier
Runtime
108 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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