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Eddie

Eddie (1996)

tomatometer

30

Average Rating: 4.8/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 7

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Average Rating: 2.6/5
User Ratings: 24,616

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Movie Info

In this comedy, a basketball fan figures she could be a better coach than the guy getting paid millions to do the job -- and then gets the chance to prove it. Edwina "Eddie" Franklin (Whoopi Goldberg) is a limousine dispatcher and sometime driver who is a passionate New York Knicks fan; she loyally follows their every move, attending as many home games as possible from the cheap seats and radioing game updates to her drivers when they play during her working hours. The Knicks are purchased by

PG-13,

Comedy

Dec 7, 1999

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All Critics (36) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (28) | DVD (1)

The next hour or so is filled with the Knicks committing turnovers, until a player tells Eddie they'll keep losing until she takes an interest in their personal lives. Wow!

March 24, 2008
Washington Post
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What saves the film from abomination is the basketball.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
Time Out
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It's a fresh, funny, engaging picture that sets up an arresting situation and then follows through on it realistically.

June 18, 2002 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
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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.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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As long as the hoopsters mix it up with the Whoopster, it's fun. A second-string story keeps interrupting, though.

January 1, 2000
USA Today
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Ms. Goldberg has everything it takes -- terrific lungs, endless wisecracks, that ear-to-ear grin -- to play the New York Knicks fan who is the star of this Cinderella story.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: New York Times
New York Times
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A blessedly obscure little movie that you won't be finding on Whoopi's career highlights reel.

March 24, 2008 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide
TV Guide's Movie Guide

The basketball stuff is, as expected, well choreographed and shot.

April 9, 2005 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews
Reeling Reviews

Whoopi Goldberg se esforça ao máximo para prender a atenção do espectador, mas o roteiro (escrito por seis pessoas!) anula suas tentativas com uma história previsível e repleta de clichês.

September 4, 2003
Cinema em Cena

Whoopi Goldberg becomes the coach of the Knicks in this silly and utterly harmless sports comedy. Too bad it just isn't funny.

November 18, 2002 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com
Filmcritic.com

One of those Whoopi Goldberg movies that makes you wonder about her career sense

August 21, 2002
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Basically moronic Whoopi basketball comedy.

August 4, 2002
eFilmCritic.com

Audience Reviews for Eddie

Whoopi Goldberg rocks, and this was surprisingly good to have went so unnoticed...it's all the way live!
September 14, 2009
stormyweather980

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Whoopi Goldberg's quite fine performance but a bit hilarious as the coach of her obsessive fan NBA basketball team after winning a contest to join in.
February 8, 2007
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