One on One

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One on One

PG

1977

1h 38m

Drama

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A small-town basketball star (Robby Benson) goes to college and tries to impress his tutor (Annette O'Toole), teammates and coach (G.D. Spradlin).

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

The movie's concocted out of story ingredients as old as the hills... but it's acted with such grace and good humor that we really care about what happens.

Rated: 3/4

Jul 2, 2018

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Time Out

Attractive if soft-centred basketball story, a sort of junior Rocky.

Jan 26, 2006

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Vincent Canby

New York Times

It also has some very good sequences that are not at all expected, including the smashing basketball game that concludes the film.

Rated: 3.5/5

May 9, 2005

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Steve Warren

The Barb (Atlanta)

No one... will find a lot to like about One on One.

May 6, 2023

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Ruth Batchelor

Los Angeles Free Press

If Robby Benson's smile doesn't make you melt, you haven't got a heart.

Oct 22, 2019

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TV Guide

An earnest, mostly believable study of the psychological struggle that can occur between player and coach.

Rated: 2/4

Mar 24, 2008

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S R

Almost good. Benson was just so weak an actor that it took away from the story. It also took on so many mature issues that seemed a bit far fetched. Some cheesy basketball, but it sort of worked. Saw on TCM.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

12/10/23

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antonio s

Very good movie, a complete story. Robby Benson's acting, as always, very solid and straight to the point. His character in this movie is very different to the character he played in Ode to Billie Joe, which is the mark of an excellent actor. Not so excellent, however, was G.D. Spradin, who played coach Moreland Smith in a way too close to Senator Pat Geary on The Godfather II for comfort. Overall, a very good movie I highly recommend.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

07/24/23

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Audience Member

Robby Benson and Annette O'Toole (what a debut) are very sweet and moving; G.D. Spradlin is effective as the seemingly duped "villain"; almost unbelievably dated in the 1970s complete with Paul Williams music

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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Dated and unwatchable. (First and only viewing - 2/10/2018)

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

07/09/19

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Scrappy story, Visited lots of locations in the first minutes, so many in fact that I spent the first hour of this two hour film trying to decided who were the good guys and who were the bad. The cg of Peter Cushing wasn't too bad, but the cg of Carrie Fisher was awful. Made her look like a hamster! Some future characters made an appearance, albeit briefly. But most of them were new and I found myself not really caring about them or what happened to them. The space fights were very good, but the opening scene "Long, long ago etc" was played vertically and not sloping away as in the other episodes, which seemed strange and a little amateurish. Film spoiled before it even started. Bit of a waste of money really.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/08/23

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Audience Member

another B ball pic '70's style

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Lamont Johnson

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Robby Benson

Henry Steele

Annette O'Toole

Janet Hays

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Synopsis

A small-town basketball star (Robby Benson) goes to college and tries to impress his tutor (Annette O'Toole), teammates and coach (G.D. Spradlin).

Director: Lamont Johnson
Producer: Marty Hornstein
Screenwriter: Robby Benson, Jerry Segal
Production Co: Warner Brothers/Seven Arts
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 8, 2017
Runtime: 1h 38m

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