Movie: The Hollywood Shorties

Top 10 Billed Cast

Jerry Maren
Jerry Maren

Tony Cox
Tony Cox

George Rossitto
George Rossitto

Kevin Thompson
Kevin Thompson

Joe Gieb
Joe Gieb

Jimmy Briscoe
Jimmy Briscoe

Martin Klebba
Martin Klebba

Billy Barty
Billy Barty

Michael Gilden
Michael Gilden

Joseph S. Griffo
Joseph S. Griffo

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    In 1980s Los Angeles, a professional dwarf basketball team composed of recognizable-but-typecast actors finds itself the unwitting vanguard of a revolution to represent little people as something other than objects of curiosity.

  • Release Date

    2016-03-12

  • Average

    7

  • Rating:

    3.5 starts
  • Tagline

    The larger-than-life story of the world's smallest professional basketball team

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  • Languages:

    English
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