A rookie high school football coach has a harder time than she expected trying to whip her tough inner city team into shape.A rookie high school football coach has a harder time than she expected trying to whip her tough inner city team into shape.A rookie high school football coach has a harder time than she expected trying to whip her tough inner city team into shape.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Mykelti Williamson
- Bird
- (as Mykel T. Williamson)
Jsu Garcia
- Cerulo
- (as Nick Corri)
Albert Michel Jr.
- Alonzo
- (as Albert Michel)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaCredited film debut of Woody Harrelson.
- GoofsKrushinski is just demoted from starting quarterback. He mentions to Molly that he makes a great slot back. The next scene is of a slot back making a great run, only the slot back is black. He gets tackled and when he gets up you see a very white Krushinski with the ball.
- Quotes
Marvel: Fuck you!
Molly McGrath: Fuck you what?
Marvel: Fuck you... Coach McGrath.
Molly McGrath: Better.
- ConnectionsFeatured in At the Movies: At the Cassette Store, Part 2 (1986)
- SoundtracksGood Hands
Performed by The Isley Brothers
Written by Hawk Wolinski and James Newton Howard
Produced by Hawk Wolinski, James Newton Howard and The Isley Brothers
Featured review
Football yuks with jockstrap jokes...
Goldie Hawn is her usual fizzy, feisty self playing a football-crazy coach trying to whip a high school team into shape. The young men are made up of delinquents and goof-offs, but can Goldie work her magic on them before the big game? "The Bad News Bears"'s Michael Ritchie directed, and it's the kind of comedy knock-off you'd expect from any Hollywood hack but Ritchie (hopefully he was well paid). Supporting cast is unusually good, with Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes in early roles, Swoosie Kurtz doing her likable sisterly bit, Nipsey Russell nicely low-keyed as a school official, Jan Hooks wonderful as the new woman in Hawn's ex-husband's life, and handsome Bruce McGill as the enemy coach (although he gets the worst scenes, particularly at end when he's forced to shout "Search his jock!" and then roll around in the mud). Hawn herself has an embarrassing moment nude in the bathtub, and the sub-plot with her boring ex is just time wasted on the clock, but her forthright comic performance just about saves "Wildcats" from the cookie-cutter bargain-bin. ** from ****
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- American Wildcats
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $26,285,544
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $5,472,905
- Feb 17, 1986
- Gross worldwide
- $26,285,544
- Runtime1 hour 46 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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