Andie's Rating: It's the sport of kings, better than diamond rings....
Andie's Review: Most people have never even heard of this movie until I make them watch it, but it's awesome. I love sports movies, football in particular and this one has a good mix of exciting games and great comedy. It's also Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes' first movie together. And Goldie Hawn is in it and she's just cute as a button.

The premise is Molly McGrath (Goldie Hawn) has been raised on the sport of football. She knows more about it than most men. But at the school she teaches for, she can only coach girls track. A big chauvanist pig of a guy named Dan Darwell (Bruce McGill) gets her a job coaching Varsity football at Central High School in the middle of Chicago. They have armed guard and doberman pinchers and Dan Darwell starts a pool on how long Molly will last as their coach.

She goes in and at first has a rocky start, complete with the entire team standing in the lock room wearing jerseys, helmets and not much else. But in what is my favorite scene, she wins a bet and they start to take her seriously. It just pretty much goes on from there, with some highlights being a victory party in which her daughter becomes intoxicated and hiding out from the police when Molly goes on a recruiting trip into the ghetto. She also encounters a few personal snags in her new career, like when her ex-husband sees this job as a threat to their daughters and tries to gain custody and send them to an all girls school called Chadam. But Molly prevails and everybody's happy. James Keach also gives a hilarious performance as the principal for Central.

Trust me, it's a great movie, especially for sports fans. The football team is awesome and Goldie Hawn is just adorable. Give it a try, I know you'll like it.

Justin's Rating: Faster, Pussycat, Kill, Kill!
Justin's Review: The key element in any washed-up-coach-trains-loser-sports-team-to-win movie is the coach. When I think leader, I think strong, dedicated, funny, somewhat talented as an actor. Goldie Hawn is none of those things. Goldie Hawn has about the charisma of a half-melted Koosh ball. Goldie Hawn knows she's pegged as a feather-brained bimbo and she's been fighting it her entire career. Goldie Hawn looks, talks, and acts like she's auditioning for Mrs. Brady. Goldie Hawn is so incredibly annoying in any movie that she's in that I get physically violent toward my very innocent television. She's a generic Meg Ryan, attempting to rely on cuteness alone. This does not work in a movie where she's supposed to be some sort of tough-as-nails inspirational coach who wins the admiration of a typically screwed-up inner city gang to lead them to victory.

There isn't much more to say about this film. Once you see the words "Goldie Hawn" flash on the credits, the movie's downhill from there.

Didja Notice?
The star quarterback, Levander Williams, is played by Bubba from Forrest Gump.

The Movie Store!
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Intermission!
Stadium scenes were filmed at Lane Technical High School's athletic field in Chicago, Illinois.

Groovy Quotes:

[Molly and Bird are in a dumpster, hiding from the cops]
Molly: Play football for me.
Bird: No way.
Molly: You play or I start screaming.
Bird: Listen, lady I-
Molly: WE'RE IN HERE--
Bird: Alright, alright, I'll play.

[a drunk daughter phones her father and stepmother]
Ellen: Stephanie, you stick. Put my dad on the phone. I wanna tell him what I think of Chadam.

If you liked this movie, try these:
Bad News Bears
The Waterboy
Necessary Roughness