‘White Men Can’t Jump’

Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes, charming and believably athletic, are the Laurel and Hardy of the half-court game, a couple of champs at pick-up basketball. Graced with good humor comic energy, they overcome sizable script problems and turn Ron Shelton’s 1992 film into a sassy and profane urban fairy tale that finds laughs in some very clever places. As Harrelson’s “Jeopardy!� junkie girlfriend, Rosie Perez emerges as a screen original. With her high-pitched squeal and wacky elocution, she sounds like a barrio Betty Boop with a touch of Elmer Fudd (HBO Friday at 8 p.m.).