Semi-Pro

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American film film sports comedy film

Semi-Pro is a 2008 sports comedy film starring Will Ferrell as the owner-coach-player of a struggling 1970s ABA basketball team.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American film → film → sports comedy film →
basedOn	fictional story →
cinematographyBy	Shane Hurlbut →
countryOfOrigin	United States of America → surface form: "United States"
director	Kent Alterman →
distributor	New Line Cinema → Warner Bros. Pictures →
editedBy	Peter Teschner →
featuresFictionalTeam	Flint Tropics →
filmingLocation	Detroit → Los Angeles →
genre	comedy → sports comedy →
hasTagline	Putting the funk into the dunk. →
hasTheme	1970s pop culture → professional basketball → underdog sports team →
language	English →
leagueDepicted	American Basketball Association →
mainCharacter	Jackie Moon →
mainCharacterPortrayedBy	Will Ferrell →
mpaaRating	R →
musicBy	Theodore Shapiro NERFINISHED →
notableFor	portrayal of the final days of the ABA before the NBA merger →
plotSummary	Follows Jackie Moon, owner-coach-player of the Flint Tropics, a struggling ABA basketball team trying to survive a league merger. →
producer	Chris Henchy → Jimmy Miller →
productionCompany	Mosaic Media Group → New Line Cinema →
releaseDate	February 29, 2008 →
releaseYear	2008 →
runtimeMinutes	91 →
screenwriter	Scot Armstrong →
setInPeriod	1970s →
sportDepicted	basketball →
starring	André Lauren Benjamin → surface form: "André Benjamin" Andy Richter NERFINISHED → David Koechner → DeRay Davis → Jackie Earle Haley → Maura Tierney → Rob Corddry NERFINISHED → Will Arnett → Will Ferrell → Woody Harrelson →

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Will Ferrell → notableWork → Semi-Pro →