Sweetwater
The man who changed the game.
In 1990 Chicago, a taxi driver recounts to his passenger, a sportswriter, his life story. He reveals himself to be Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton, one of the first African Americans to play in the NBA.
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Cast
Wayne Federman
Referee Pete
Ca'Ron Jaden Coleman
Young Sweetwater
Richard Dreyfuss
Maurice Podoloff
Mike Starr
Eddie Gottlieb
Jeremy Piven
Joe Lapchick
Jim Meskimen
Miles Slocum
Billy Malone
Dan
Cary Elwes
Ned Irish
Eric Etebari
Frank
Everett Osborne
Nathaniel 'Sweetwater' Clifton
Kevin Pollak
Abe Saperstein
Gary Clark Jr.
T-Bone
Preston Galli
Autograph Seeking Boy (uncredited)
Jim Caviezel
Sports Writer
Paul Hipp
Barker
Bobby Portis Jr.
Earl "Big Cat" Llyod
Ashani Roberts
Sweetwater's Mother
Robert Ri'chard
Pop
Ernest Harden Jr.
Coach Will Robinson
Dahlia Waingort
Mrs. Lapchick
Delijah McAlpin
Teen Sweetwater
Paul Riley Fox
Mechanic (uncredited)
Eric Roberts
Judd
Jason Sklar
Donnie Grossman
Tim Kavanagh
Arthur "Art" Webb
Dave Cobert
Dick McGuire
Emmaline
Jeanne Staples