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20 December 1980 (USA) morePlot:
Jim Brandon, a former player of the Chigago Bears, has been paralysed during the Vietnam-war. When he returns... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Robert Conrad | ... | Jim Brandon |
 | Erin Gray | ... | Paula DeFalco |
| Red West | ... | Superintendant Turner |
| Daphne Reid | ... | Merissa Lane (as Daphne Maxwell) |
 | David Raynr | ... | Sweetlife (as David Hubbard) |
| Ricky Paull Goldin | ... | Andy DeFalco (as Ricky Paul) |
 | Alex Paez | ... | Hector Estrada |
| Radames Torres | ... | Peanut Rodriguez (as Radames Torres) |
| Louis Carello | ... | Eddie Lovella (as Lou Carello) |
 | Dean Hill | ... | McLeash |
| Ed O'Bradovich | ... | Ed O'Bradovich |
| Joneal Joplin | ... | Coach Forester |
| Howard A. Peters III | ||
| Calvin Bradford | ... | The Boys from St. Charles |
| José 'Little Man' Navarro | ... | The Boys from St. Charles (as Jose 'Little Man' Navarro) |
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I don't know if this type of movie was as cliché then as it seems to be now.
Considering how many "Bad News Bears" films had already been released by 1980, however, I think that this sort of movie was already a tired idea.
A former football player is partially paralyzed in Vietnam and is confined to a wheelchair. The Chicago Bears offer him a PR job but he wants to coach. At the same time, his underage nephew is picked up for armed robbery. We are told that he has already been arrested over a dozen times before and he must now serve some hard time...which turns out to be less than a year!
Of course, the kid is actually a good kid who only needs a tough male role model in his life. The same goes for all of the kids in the detention facility. Yes...even the one locked up for attempted murder! I'm sure you already know what happens so I'll try and keep the rest of this brief.
Our protagonist becomes the coach of the kids' football team. He overcomes the delinquents' cynicism and earns their respect. His team faces off against a local high school team (yeah right!) and they get their butts kicked. Now determined more than ever to prove himself a worthy coach, he demands a rematch. Will these underprivileged, scrappy kids with hearts of gold be able to improve enough to win the rematch? Awful execution of the football sequences ruins any possibility of excitement in this film. "Coach Of The Year" should get penalized for roughing my brain. 1/10