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      Eddie

      PG-13 1996 1 hr. 40 min. Comedy List
      16% 37 Reviews Tomatometer 36% 10,000+ Ratings Audience Score Chauffeur Edwina "Eddie" Franklin (Whoopi Goldberg) is fanatical about the New York Knicks basketball team. After she wins a contest to be their honorary assistant coach, Eddie so impresses the team's owner (Frank Langella) that he fires the head coach, John Bailey (Dennis Farina), and replaces him with Eddie. She is instrumental in turning the floundering team around, just in time to make the playoffs. There, they will face the Charlotte Hornets -- now led by former Knicks coach Bailey. Read More Read Less
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      Whoopi Goldberg may demonstrate that she can coach a basketball team with the best of them, but not even she can whip this dreary script into shape.

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      Steve D Whoopi is good but the rest sure isn't, especially the script. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member It's a movie that without Whoopi would suck but she is there and enough to save the movie to be just an ok mix. If you want to see it, go ahead but it's better as just a rent than a buy. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Great movie funny and different.. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member A die hard Knicks fan becomes head coach in this familiar and cliche comedy that ultimately wastes the talents of its lead star, Whoopi Goldberg. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Whoopi Goldberg plays an awesome coach! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Goldberg's typically favorable with her moments, but less than her attempts to be funny when she's the only comedic quality in this unfunny sports comedy. She'd followed a good concept of a seated-far-away fan-turned-coach of her favorite team becomes more than she acknowledges. The other concept of a weak team is similar (excluding the powerless team in "Space Jam"), next to the similarly somewhat semi-"The Best of Times" silliness. (B-) Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Bruce Walker Washington Post The next hour or so is filled with the Knicks committing turnovers, until a player tells Eddie they'll keep losing until she takes an interest in their personal lives. Wow! Mar 24, 2008 Full Review Charlotte O'Sullivan Time Out What saves the film from abomination is the basketball. Jan 26, 2006 Full Review Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle It's a fresh, funny, engaging picture that sets up an arresting situation and then follows through on it realistically. Rated: 3/4 Jun 18, 2002 Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Whoopi's character takes the team to the verge of the playoffs thanks to her brilliant motivational talks (“Who the hell do you guys think you are?”) and ingenious sideline coaching (“Defense!”). Rated: 1.5/4 Feb 17, 2023 Full Review Sheila Reid Women in the Life Is it my imagination or is Whoopi the same in every role she's ever had? May 31, 2022 Full Review Chase Burns The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Eddie is improbable and stupid... Jan 5, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis Chauffeur Edwina "Eddie" Franklin (Whoopi Goldberg) is fanatical about the New York Knicks basketball team. After she wins a contest to be their honorary assistant coach, Eddie so impresses the team's owner (Frank Langella) that he fires the head coach, John Bailey (Dennis Farina), and replaces him with Eddie. She is instrumental in turning the floundering team around, just in time to make the playoffs. There, they will face the Charlotte Hornets -- now led by former Knicks coach Bailey.
      Director
      Steve Rash
      Production Co
      PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Permut Presentations, Island Pictures, Hollywood Pictures
      Rating
      PG-13
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (DVD)
      Jul 1, 2003
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $31.4M
      Sound Mix
      Surround, Stereo