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Nancy Larson (screenplay)
Stephen Bruce Rose (screenplay)
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Release Date:
17 March 1978 (USA) more
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Everybody Loves A Winner ! more
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An Olympic Gold medalist is hired to coach the boys basketball team. But when Coach Randy Rawlings arrives... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Cathy Lee Crosby ... Randy Rawlings

Michael Biehn ... Jack Ripley
Keenan Wynn ... Fenton 'F.R.' Granger
Channing Clarkson ... Bradley William David Granger
Steve Nevil ... Ralph
Jack David Walker ... Ned
Meridith Baer ... Janet
Myron McGill ... Danny
Robyn Pohle ... Candy
Kristine Greco ... Darlene

Brent Huff ... Keith
Cindy Daly ... Wanda
Rosanne Katon ... Sue
Lenka Novak ... Marilyn
Otto Felix ... Tom
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100 min
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Coachtease, 30 May 2009
3/10
Author: Zeegrade from Under the tollway bridge

A high school principal (Keenan Wynn) with a losing basketball team unwittingly hires a coach who turns out not only to be a gorgeous blond woman (Cathy Lee Crosby) but a catalyst for their new winning ways. Are you really surprised? Along the way a romance grows between the coach and the team's star player Jack (Michael Biehn). The police are never notified.

Packaged along with other Crown International Pictures as a grindhouse movie really does this film no service. This can easily be edited into a television movie of the week. Cathy Lee Crosby looks great as coach Randy Rawlings especially in her skimpy outfits but I expected more than mere titillation from an R-rated film. A side plot involving a dorky center who is hypnotized by his teammates into thinking he is former NBA player Sydney Wicks is the actual reason for the team's new success rather than Cathy Lee's coaching. Too much tease and not enough sleaze makes this a major disappointment.

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