MOVIE SYNOPSIS
Balls of Fury
In the unsanctioned, underground, and unhinged world of extreme ping-pong, the competition is brutal and the stakes are deadly. Down-and-out former professional ping-pong phenom Randy Daytona is sucked into this maelstrom when FBI Agent Rodriguez recruits him for a secret mission. Randy is determined to bounce back and recapture his former glory and to smoke out his father's killer--one of the FBI's Most Wanted, arch-fiend Feng. But, after two decades out of the game, Randy can't turn his life around and avenge his father's murder without a team of his own. He calls upon the spiritual guidance of blind ping-pong sage and restaurateur Wong and the training expertise of Master Wong's wildly sexy niece Maggie, both of whom also have a dark history with Feng. All roads lead to Feng's mysterious jungle compound and the most unique ping-pong tournaments ever staged. There, Randy faces such formidable players as his long-ago Olympics opponent, the still-vicious Karl Wolfschtagg. Can Randy keep his eye on the ball? Will he achieve the redemption he craves while wielding a paddle? Is his backhand strong enough to triumph over rampant wickedness?
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MPAA rating:
PG-13
for crude and sex-related humor, and for language
Cast:
Christopher Walken; Aisha Tyler; Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa; Diedrich Bader; George Lopez; Robert Patrick; Thomas Lennon; Maggie Q; Dan Fogler
Directed by:
Ben Garant
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Genre:
Action, Adventure; Comedy Running time:
01:30
Release date:
2007
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