Eddie

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Eddie

PG-13

1996

1h 40m

Comedy

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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.

Critics Consensus

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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Bruce Walker

Washington Post

03/24/2008

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!

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Charlotte O'Sullivan

Time Out

01/26/2006

What saves the film from abomination is the basketball.

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Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

06/18/2002

3/4

It's a fresh, funny, engaging picture that sets up an arresting situation and then follows through on it realistically.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

02/17/2023

1.5/4

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!”).

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Sheila Reid

Women in the Life

05/31/2022

Is it my imagination or is Whoopi the same in every role she's ever had?

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Chase Burns

The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

01/05/2022

Eddie is improbable and stupid...

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Mar 14

The worldwide gross is $31,400,000.00 over a budget of $30,000,000.00.

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Steve D

@RT35616104 02/14/2023

Whoopi is good but the rest sure isn't, especially the script.

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06/24/2021

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.

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04/09/2020

Great movie funny and different..

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06/19/2016

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.

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07/05/2014

Whoopi Goldberg plays an awesome coach!

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Steve Rash

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Edwina "Eddie" Franklin

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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
Producer: Mark Burg, David Permut
Screenwriter: Jon Connolly, David Loucka, Eric Champnella, Keith Mitchell, Steve Zacharias, Jeff Buhai
Production Co: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Island Pictures, Permut Presentations, Hollywood Pictures
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (DVD): Jul 1, 2003
Box Office (Gross USA): $31.4M
Runtime: 1h 40m
Sound Mix: Surround, Stereo