Rotten
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!
Bruce Walker, Washington Post
Eddie
The newest coach in the NBA has got the Knicks right where she wants them.
1996 · 1h 40m · PG-13
Action, Comedy
Directed by
Steve Rash
Overview
Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketball team. The team is struggling with a mediocre record when, in mid-season, "Wild Bill" Burgess, the new owner, as a public relations gimmick, stages an 'honorary coach' contest, which Eddie wins. The fans love it, so "Wild Bill" fires the coach and hires her. She takes the bunch of overpaid prima
Director and cast
- Steve Rash Director
- Whoopi Goldberg as Edwina 'Eddie' Franklin
- Frank Langella as Wild Bill Burgess
- Dennis Farina as Coach John Bailey
- Richard Jenkins as Carl Zimmer
- Lisa Ann Walter as Claudine
- John Benjamin Hickey as Joe Nader
- Troy Byer as Beth Hastings
- John Salley as Nate Wilson
- Rick Fox Cast
- Malik Sealy Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
17%
Tomatometer
Fresh
What saves the film from abomination is the basketball.
Charlotte O'Sullivan, Time Out
Fresh
It's a fresh, funny, engaging picture that sets up an arresting situation and then follows through on it realistically.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten
This sounds like a sensational scenario, but, alas, almost everything in betweenis recycled out of lightweight sports-movie cliches, and the movie never captures the electricity and excitement of the real NBA.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
As long as the hoopsters mix it up with the Whoopster, it's fun. A second-string story keeps interrupting, though.
Mike Clark, USA Today
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