Brad Johnson (Tom Campitelli) is the millionaire owner of a manufacturing company and also the owner of Dallas’s basketball team.  (Even though this film was shot in Dallas, the team is never specifically referred to as being the Mavericks).  Brad’s company is a success and has just signed a contract with the Pentagon.  However, Brad is more concerned with why his team keeps losing games.  He goes to the “Fourth Floor,” the section of his corporate headquarters where nerdy Doc Alvins (Mike O’Dell) can use his computer, Delphi, to predict the future.  Brad has Mike program Delphi to compute what is wrong with his basketball team.  Delphi reports that the team needs a new point guard and that Brad should sign Terry Williams (Nancy Lieberman).  Terry becomes the first woman to play in the NBA!  She also sleeps with the team owner but she’s probably not the first player to do that.

Perfect Profile is a strange film.  Depending on the source, it was released in either 1989 or 1991 but it has the aesthetics of a film that was shot a few ears earlier, maybe around 1984 or 1985.  The boxy computers and the cheap graphics come straight from the late 70s and early 80s and, with his taped glasses and pocket protector, Dr. Alvins is a dead ringer for Robert Carradine in Revenge of the Nerds.  The film is technically a comedy but a scene in which the computer suggests that the ideal point guard would be a black version of Larry Bird is about as edgy as things get.  With one key exception, the actors often seem to be lost.  I’m going to guess this was a regional production and that the majority of the cast and crew were locals.

Nancy Lieberman, who played Terry, is considered to be one of the greatest players in the history of women’s basketball.  She played for the Dallas Diamonds in 1984, which is how she probably ended up in this movie.  Lieberman is likable as Terry and she brings some authenticity to the basketball scenes.  The film may not have been good but Nancy Lieberman did her best.