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| Coach Roy once was college basketball’s top mastermind. But lately his attentions have been on his next endorsements, not on his next game. What’s more, Roy’s temper has run amuck, leading to his being banned from college ball until he can “demonstrate compliance” -- in other words, not explode every time he walks onto the court. |
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| CREDITS |
| Directed
by Steve Carr
Story by William Wolff and Ed Decter and John J.
Strauss
Screenplay by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore
 Cast
(in credits order)
Martin Lawrence .... Roy McCormick/Preacher Don
Wendy Raquel Robinson .... Jeanie Ellis
Breckin Meyer .... Tim Fink
Horatio Sanz .... Mr. Newirth
Oren Williams .... Keith Ellis
Patrick Warburton .... Larry Burgess
Megan Mullally .... Principal Walsh
Eddy Martin .... One Love
Steven C. Parker .... Wes
Steven Anthony Lawrence .... Ralph
Logan McElroy .... Fuzzy
Gus Hoffman .... Goggles
Tara Correa-McMullen .... Big Mac
Amy Bruckner .... Annie
Alia Shawkat .... Amy
Fred Stoller .... Late Carl
Katt Williams .... Preacher Don's Sidekick
Dennis Cockrum .... Referee Freddy
Produced
by
Steven Brown .... line producer: additional photography
Paul Deason .... executive producer
Martin Lawrence .... executive producer
Darice Rollins .... associate producer
Heidi Santelli .... executive producer
Robert Simonds .... producer
Tracey Trench .... executive producer
Original
Music by Teddy Castellucci
Cinematography by Glen MacPherson
Film Editing by Craig Herring
MPAA: Rated PG for mild language
and thematic elements.
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| SYNOPSIS
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 Coach
Roy (MARTIN LAWRENCE) once was college basketball’s top mastermind.
But lately his attentions have been on his next endorsements, not
on his next game. What’s more, Roy’s temper has run amuck,
leading to his being banned from college ball until he can “demonstrate
compliance” -- in other words, not explode every time he walks
onto the court. Roy waits -- and waits -- for a suitable coaching
offer, but he receives only one: a hastily scribbled fax from...
members of the Mount Vernon Junior High School “Smelters”*
basketball squad. Roy reluctantly accepts the “offer,”
hoping that a few weeks at the school will prove his good intentions
and restore him to his high-living ways as a celebrated college
coach.But when “old school” meets “middle
school,” Coach Roy doesn’t know what hit him. The boys
are hapless, possessing little athletic skill and virtually no grasp
of the fundamentals of basketball. Roy’s first game as the
Smelters’ coach sees the team losing 0-109. And it looks like
things are going only downhill from there.That is, until Roy decides to teach his young charges
some new concepts... like passing, rebounding, dribbling, and scoring.
As Roy’s coaching magic takes the Smelters to a new place
-- the winning side of the scoreboard -- he finds something long
thought lost: his love of the game. (*smelter: one who is engaged in the smelting industry,
melting or fusing ores in order to separate the metallic components.) |
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 Coach Roy (Martin Lawrence) finds himself banned from college basketball when he throws one tantrum too many (a la Bobby Knight). The standard reclamation project is the Mount Vernon Junior High School Smelters, with its hapless team and low expectations. Don’t expect much difference from The Mighty Ducks but laughs and heartwarming moments abound.
Depending on what you want your kid to learn, Rebound could be the movie for you. In the process of learning more about himself, each member of the six person team of Smelters receives some positive encouragement from Coach Roy. For the overly confident, self-focused leader, Roy dispenses the ‘I-was-just-like-you-but-here’s-how-I-had-to-change” speech that comes at a time when Roy himself seems to need the lesson again as well. For the stressed out kid, Roy inspires a confidence that belies the situation. For the shy, tall, and uncoordinated giant, Roy reminds him that everyone wants to be loved and basketball can provide him that (and it does!)
 Some of the humor, and the religious interjection into the movie, comes when Coach Roy pays a flamboyant preacher-type to come and pray for the team. Not for a lack of spirit, the preacher prays that if the team can’t win well by itself, that God allow the legs of the other team’s best players to be broken. Obviously, the caricature is meant to be a spoof of what is quite ridiculous: the adult inclination to put God one team or another, and to blow the ability for children to repeat out of proportion. Some will discount this as commentary because it is done for laughs—but how many of you, preparing to step on the field, prayed with a team where God was clearly only for your team? The truth is that this sentiment carries off the sports field and into our churches—God doesn’t take sides, He loves everybody!
 In the other prayer, Coach Roy yells at the heavens when the bus has a flat tire, because he doesn’t know how to change it. He moans that ‘you are trying to ruin me’—his focus is still on himself at this point, as he seeks to be reinstated into ‘real’ coaching. The answer to his prayer comes from his team—they come off the bus to fix the tire themselves. Filled with humor, the illustration of prayer being answered by people who hear the prayer and see the need is well put here. Rather than some ‘supernatural/miracle’ action, the flat tire is fixed by people who are present at the place of need and have the ability to fix it. Just another lesson to take note of in this standard for sports nuts.
So to wrap up, I’m not going to sell Rebound as a great movie—but the laughs are worth it, and so are the moments of inspiration. |
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