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Eddie

3.8

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Original title

Eddie

Year

1996

Running time

88 min.

Country

United States

Director

Steve Rash

Screenwriter

Jon Connolly, David Loucka, Eric Champnella, Keith Coogan, Steve Zacharias, Jeff Buhai. Story: Steve Zacharias, Jeff Buhai, Jon Connolly, David LouckaSee 6 More

Cast

Music

Stanley Clarke

Cinematography

Victor J. Kemper

Producer

Hollywood Pictures, Polygram Filmed Entertainment, Island Pictures, Permut Productions

Genre

Comedy | Sports. Basketball

Synopsis

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 donnas that make up the team and turns them around. But the owner hopes to move the team, now the darling of the New York fans, to St. Louis. He may own the team, but it belongs to the city and the fans!

Awards: 1996: Nominated for Razzie Awards: Worst Actress (Whoopi Goldberg)

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Critics' reviews

"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
"It's a dull, stale affair with suspenseless game sequences, humorless jokes, and pathetic drama."

James Berardinelli: ReelViews
"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
"What saves the film from abomination is the basketball."

Charlotte O'Sullivan: Time Out

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Eddie

1996

Steve Rash

3.8

(5,182)