The movie had a different title in the uk for it's vhs release. It was called 'coach' or 'the coach' never released in uk on dvd as far as i know. It's straight forward movie. I actually found rhea pearlmans acting to be quite stale, maybe she's not suited for this type of movie. The rest of the cast do just fine. Not much of a storyline to be had, even under the synopsis of high school ball movie with the occasional shooting, fight, lovers tiff, drugs, wins and everything else cliched. The soundtrack is solid and i'd still rather have it than not have it in my collection. Won't be watching again for another 20 years probably.

OK, so it is not the best basketball pic I have seen. That honor goes to Hoosiers. I can watch Gene Hackman over and over in that film and never get tired. But, having said that, it is not a bad film either.

Rhea Perlman, whom I haven't seen since what, Officer Honey in that Canadian Bacon flick, really didn't ad much to the film. She knows nothing about basketball and just took the job as a stepping stone to another losing career.

The real star of the film is Fredro Starr, who gets the team together. The team is talented so the coach Doesn't have to do much more that get them playing as a team. She is more social worker than coach and it all comes together as the team starts winning.

It also stars Terrance Howard, who went on to do some great work after this (Best Man, Hustle and Flow, Ray, Crach).

Not a great film, but not a complete waste of time.

OK get past the ludicrous idea of Carla Tortelli as an inner city basketball coach who knows nothing about basketball and you still have a unbelievably poor cliche ridden sports movie that is probably the worst I have ever scene. Rhea should thank her lucky stars that her husband has enough money to produce bombs such as this. Do yourself a favor, don't waste the 99 minutes of your life that it would take to view this film.