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Balls of Fury (2007)

Balls of Fury poster
Directed by
Ben Garant
Genre
comedy film, martial arts film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
5.3 of 10 from 608 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A former ping pong prodigy is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate an underground tournament run by a dangerous criminal. He must use his table tennis skills to take down the villain and save the day.

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What happens

Balls of Fury is a 2007 American sports comedy film directed by Robert Ben Garant from a screenplay he co-wrote with Thomas Lennon, who also co-starred and produced with Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber and Jonathan Glickman. The film stars Dan Fogler in his first lead role, with a supporting cast of George Lopez, Christopher Walken, Maggie Q, Terry Crews, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, James Hong and Jason Scott Lee. It was released in the United States on August 29, 2007, to generally negative reviews. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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