Semi pro
- Alexchi
- Oct 31, 2019
- 2 min read

Semi-Pro is a 2008 American sports comedy film from New Line Cinema. The film was directed by Kent Alterman and stars Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, André Benjamin and Maura Tierney. The film was shot in Los Angeles near Dodger Stadium, in Detroit, and in Flint, Michigan. Released in theaters on February 29, 2008 and released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on June 3, 2008, it was the last film from New Line Cinema before they were absorbed by Warner Bros.
In 1976, Jackie Moon is a singer who used the profits from his one-hit wonder, "Love Me Sexy", to buy a basketball team in the American Basketball Association (ABA), the Flint Tropics, becoming the owner, head coach, and starting power forward, and pre-game announcer. The ABA Commissioner announces a plan to merge the league with the National Basketball Association (NBA), but only four teams will move to the more established league. The Tropics, the worst team in the league, are in danger of dissolving. Jackie argues that the teams with the four best records should be merged and the Commissioner accepts.
Then Jackie had uses all of his budget to trade a point guard from Celtics named Monix. Even though Monix has won one NBA championship but he still couldn't influence the team. So he ask Jackie to let him coach The Tropic. The Tropics started to run tactics under Monix's training, and The Tropics just need to win one more game to reach the fourth place in ABA.
Unfortunately the NBA has agreed that no ever what happened The Tropic will still be dissolved.
After receiving this information, all of the players were in a strange environment, but they still decide to do their best to perform their last game.










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