HUSTLE is a stunningly good sports drama on Netflix starring Adam Sandler about an NBA player scout for the Philadelphia 76ers and his determination to get an unknown Spanish player onto the team through hard work and by molding raw talent. HUSTLE is an uplifting crowd-pleaser with some strong positive family, pro-capitalist values and an appealing, career-best performance by Sandler, but it has lots of strong foul language, so extreme caution is advised.
Sandler plays Stanley Sugerman, an exhausted basketball scout who scours the courts across Europe to recruit foreign talent for his team. He has a devoted wife, Teresa (Queen Latifah), and teenage daughter, whom he rarely gets to see because of his frantic schedule. The crusty owner of the 76ers, Rex, decides to hire Stanley as an assistant...