- #THE COACH IN THE MOVIE COOTIES MOVIE#
- #THE COACH IN THE MOVIE COOTIES PRO#
- #THE COACH IN THE MOVIE COOTIES PROFESSIONAL#
- #THE COACH IN THE MOVIE COOTIES TV#
When the school's sexist principal Fenton Granger (Keenan Wynn) discovers that he has unwittingly hired a woman (Cathy Lee Crosby), he is keen to get rid of her, but finds that he is legally bound to let her have the job-at least until she messes up, something that he tries to ensure will happen sooner rather than later.
#THE COACH IN THE MOVIE COOTIES MOVIE#
Although very tame and innocuous of its type (there's only a dab of nudity and the humor never gets too raunchy), this movie still sizes up as an extremely likable and hence enjoyable flick.ĭesperate to improve the performance of their boys basketball team, Granger High School hires two time Olympic medallist Randy Rawlings as coach without checking the gender of their new employee. The climactic big championship is genuinely exciting. 70's B-pic starlets Lenka Novak and Rosanne Katon pop up in small parts as sexy cheerleaders.
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#THE COACH IN THE MOVIE COOTIES PRO#
Pro basketball player Sydney Wicks has a nifty cameo as himself. Moreover, there are nice supporting performances by Steve Nevil as geeky awkward stringbean Ralph, Channing Clarkson as the upstanding Bradley William David Granger, and John David Walker as the gangly Ned. Crosy and Biehn make for attractive and appealing leads their central romance is sweet and charming. Keenan Wynn contributes a marvelously cantankerous turn as grouchy disapproving sexist pig school official Fenton "F.R." Granger. Director Bud Townsend, working from a rather slight, but frothy and eventful script by Nancy Larson and Stephen Prince Rose, relates the breezy story at a steady pace and maintains an amiable tone throughout. Randy leads the team to victory and has a romantic fling with decent and affable star player Jack Ripley (a sound and engaging portrayal by Michael Biehn in his first lead role). Spunky and willful Olympic gold medal winner Randy Rawlins (a winningly sharp and pert performance by the foxy Cathy Lee Crosby) gets accidentally hired to coach an all-male high school basketball team. So you can't go into this film obviously expecting much, but if you give it a chance, you really won't feel that you've wasted your time even though there have been better movies about teen sports. As their coach, Crosby certainly is formidable, and scenes of them sweating profusely after practice while she encourages them to practice on are realistic.
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#THE COACH IN THE MOVIE COOTIES PROFESSIONAL#
Sydney Wicks, a professional basketball player of the time, makes a guest appearance, coming to aide Crosby in instilling confidence in the team and make them more conformable with her as their coach. What makes it a better movie isn't certain aspects of the screenplay (a scene with a nerdy member of the team having to go to the bathroom while on a bus home and being denied the opportunity is rather disturbing, as is the aftermath of when they arrive), but because it just seems to enjoy being mostly sweet and innocent.
#THE COACH IN THE MOVIE COOTIES TV#
It certainly is not a good movie, more like a TV movie of the week with a few shots of bare women's breasts and male buttocks added to make it to movie theaters where I'm sure it did not do big business outside of high school jocks and their cheerleader girlfriends. Will he have that opportunity when Crosby ends up allegedly becoming involved with team member Michael Biehn, an absolute no-no? I absolutely expected to hate this movie so I was surprised that halfway through I wasn't tempted to turn it off. He's basically playing the villainous Alonzo Hawkes here, although his character isn't as ruthless, just a sexist pig. Principal Keenan Wynn wants the offer retracted but she's threatens a lawsuit so he's forced to take her on, and thus begins his schemes of trying to make her screw up so he can fire her.
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Because their name is Randy, the board member who hires them thinks it's a man, but it's really an Olympic track champion played by Cathy Lee Crosby. It's about a high school with a losing basketball team where the coach is all of a sudden fired (basically told to us through a homophobic slur) and a new coach is hired without actually being interviewed.
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This certainly is not an unlikable film, but it is defeated by a cheap look with some poor sound (gymnasium scene sound like they were filmed in a tunnel) and an average screenplay at best.