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Writers (WGA):
Seth Zvi Rosenfeld (written by) and
Kathleen McGhee-Anderson (written by)
Release Date:
26 April 1996 (USA) more
Tagline:
You gotta represent.
Plot:
A white school teacher takes over a talented, but undisciplined black high school basketball team and turns them into a winning team. | add synopsis
User Comments:
Middlin' basketball picture more (6 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Rhea Perlman | ... | Phyllis Saroka |
| Fredro Starr | ... | Shorty |
 | Carol Kane | ... | Mona |
 | Terrence Howard | ... | Spaceman (as Terrence DaShon Howard) |
| Camille Saviola | ... | Barbara |
| De'aundre Bonds | ... | Busy-Bee |
| Talent Harris | ... | Butter (as James Harris) |
| Anthony C. Hall | ... | Andre (as Anthony Hall) |
| Antwon Tanner | ... | Drano |
| Shawn Michael Howard | ... | Kurt |
| Guy Torry | ... | Boo Man |
| Scott Burkholder | ... | Morris Bernstein |
 | John Aprea | ... | Dominic |
| John Vargas | ... | Mr. Santiago |
| Rhonda Stubbins White | ... | Carla |
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Rated R for some language and sexual references.
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99 min
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Iceland:L | Australia:M | Netherlands:16 (video premiere) | Spain:13 | USA:R | Singapore:PG
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[Shorty sees his girlfriend, Cheryl, talking to another man]
Shorty:
Cheryl!... Cheryl!... CHERYL! . . .
Cheryl:
Don't be callin' my name out all loud like that!
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Features Rage of Honor (1987) more
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For the Funk more
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OK, so it is not the best basketball pic I have seen. That honor goes to Hoosiers. I can watch Gene Hackman over and over in that film and never get tired. But, having said that, it is not a bad film either.
Rhea Perlman, whom I haven't seen since what, Officer Honey in that Canadian Bacon flick, really didn't ad much to the film. She knows nothing about basketball and just took the job as a stepping stone to another losing career.
The real star of the film is Fredro Starr, who gets the team together. The team is talented so the coach Doesn't have to do much more that get them playing as a team. She is more social worker than coach and it all comes together as the team starts winning.
It also stars Terrance Howard, who went on to do some great work after this (Best Man, Hustle and Flow, Ray, Crach).
Not a great film, but not a complete waste of time.