Bad As I Wanna Be: The Dennis Rodman Story

1998

Biography / Drama / Sport

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 30%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 30% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 4.7/10 10 467 467

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Plot summary

Biography of Chicago Bulls' basketball star Dennis Rodman, who is well known for his off-court and on-court shenanigans takes great effort to paint the calm, decent side of the athlete despite the film title. Dennis is shown to be pushed by his momma to play pro ball and to go to college where he would get the opportunity. Shipped to Oklahoma where he faces racism, he is taken in by a white family and coached by Lonn Reisman. The movie finally tracks Rodman into his wild, multi-haired current lifestyle. Written by John Sacksteder

Director

Jean de Segonzac Photo
Jean de Segonzac

Top cast

Dwayne Adway Photo
Dwayne Adway as Dennis Rodman
Dee Wallace Photo
Dee Wallace as Rodman's Stepmother
Dennis Rodman Photo
Dennis Rodman as Self
Daniel Hugh Kelly Photo
Daniel Hugh Kelly as Lonn Reisman
480p.WEB
764.72 MB
720*480
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by 3 / 10

Laughably bad acting, directing, and production values. Story is okay.

Oh this movie is bad. Real bad. I can't explain the number of ways in which it stinks. I'll point out the highlights of it's awfulness.1. The re-creations of the NBA games, uniforms, and stadiums are hilarious. The jerseys look like they came straight from the screen printers, and the basketball clips shows Rodman scoring like Jordan.2. Both of his mothers take the word over-acting to new levels. His black mom in Dallas and white mom in Durant appear to be reading the lines from the cue cards.3. The intermissions where Dennis explains his feelings about the situations often involve mirrors; maybe they are supposed to be cool, but I found them to be annoying. They also seemed to point out that he approved this version of the story.But, there were a few intriguing story lines. Oklahoma can be rough for minorities, and I believe that he did befriend a family and spend a lot of time at the family ranch. The Madonna story was plausible and genuine. The brief interview with the psychiatrist was surprisingly entertaining.However, this was a train wreck of a film, I would prefer to read something about him later.3/10
Reviewed by 6 / 10

Not as bad as the last comment Suggests

Granted, this TV movie had some weak acting in a lot of scenes, but it's a made-for-TV movie so it's not going to have the greatest acting in the world. I love how the movie showed Rodman's early beginnings. Where in college basketball, he set scoring and rebounding records, and won titles for those categories. Not many people know that. It also did show the softer side of Dennis Rodman, and in watching that movie you can see that anytime in an interview whenever his daughter Alexis is mentioned he breaks into tears. This movie showed a softer, gentler side of Dennis Rodman, a man whom is my personal hero. Although books are always better than movies, this flick was amazing. Kudos.
Reviewed by 2 / 10

Read the book

I read the book and thoroughly enjoyed it.I struggled through the movie.Did anyone else think that Rodman's mum had more than a passing resemblance to Steve Erkel? That dorky guy in that American comedy a few years ago???The worst part was that the movie didn't even portray Rodman correctly. I know he doesn't do a spin move with such grace now, so why should he have been doing them back in College???And to think I was going to get out Hoosiers and watch it again... :(
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