Champions

Rating: Half-Full

Studio: Focus Feature/Gold Circle Entertainment

Genre: Sports/Comedy/Drama

Cast: Woody Harrelson, Kaitlin Olson, Ernie Hudson, Madison Tevlin, Joshua Felder, Kevin Iannucci, Ashton Gunning, Matthew Von Der Ahe, Tom Sinclair, James Day Keith, Alex Hintz, Casey Metcalfe, Bradley Edens and Cheech Marin

Director: Bobby Farrelly

Writer: Mark Rizzo

Based on: the 2018 film Campeones by Javier Fesser and David Marques

Producers: Paul Brooks, Scott Niemeyer and Jeremy Plager

Music by: Michael Franti

Rated: PG-13 for strong language and crude/sexual reference

Release Date: 03/10/23

Runtime: 2h 4m

Tagline: Every dream team starts somewhere.

Favorite Character: Markus Marakovich

Quote: “You know the game better than anybody. You got to learn to build relationships.”- Phil Perretti

Fun Fact: This movie is a American version of the 2018 Spanish film ‘Campeones’

Summary: A disgraced assistant coach of the minor league basketball is forced to serve his sentence coaching the Special Olympics basketball team which thanks to his coaching, the team may do better than before.

The One Liner Review: Champions writing is just like the other sports movies while adding disabled people as players is quite enough to warm the audiences heart.

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