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Whoopi Goldberg may demonstrate that she can coach a basketball team with the best of them, but not even she can whip this dreary script into shape. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

Chauffeur Edwina "Eddie" Franklin (Whoopi Goldberg) is fanatical about the New York Knicks basketball team. After she wins a contest to be their honorary assistant coach, Eddie so impresses the team's owner (Frank Langella) that he fires the head coach, John Bailey (Dennis Farina), and replaces him with Eddie. She is instrumental in turning the floundering team around, just in time to make the playoffs. There, they will face the Charlotte Hornets -- now led by former Knicks coach Bailey.

Rating:

PG-13
Genre:

comedy
Original Language:

English
Director:

Steve Rash
Producer:

David Permut, Mark Burg
Release Date (Streaming):

Jul 1, 2003
Box Office (Gross USA):

$31.4M
Runtime:

1h 40m
Production Co:

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Permut Presentations, Island Pictures, Hollywood Pictures
Sound Mix:

Surround, Stereo

Cast & Crew

Whoopi Goldberg
Edwina "Eddie" Franklin

Frank Langella
Wild Bill Burgess

Dennis Farina
Coach John Bailey

Richard Jenkins
Carl Zimmer

Lisa Ann Walter
Claudine

John Benjamin Hickey
Joe Nader

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Critic Reviews for Eddie

All Critics (34) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (28)

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

Bruce Walker
Washington Post
What saves the film from abomination is the basketball.

January 26, 2006 | Full Review…

Charlotte O'Sullivan
Time Out
It's a fresh, funny, engaging picture that sets up an arresting situation and then follows through on it realistically.

June 18, 2002 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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 | Rating: 3.5/5

Janet Maslin
New York Times
As long as the hoopsters mix it up with the Whoopster, it's fun. A second-string story keeps interrupting, though.

January 1, 2000 | Rating: 2.5/4

Mike Clark
USA Today
It's a dull, stale affair with suspenseless game sequences, humorless jokes, and pathetic drama.

January 1, 2000 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…

James Berardinelli
ReelViews
Even with many fouls, Whoopi's film still is entertaining.

January 8, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Mal Vincent
The Virginian-Pilot
A blessedly obscure little movie that you won't be finding on Whoopi's career highlights reel.

March 24, 2008 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

TV Guide
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February 16, 2006 | Rating: 1/5

Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
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August 14, 2005 | Rating: 2/5

Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
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May 6, 2005 | Rating: 2/5

Caffeinated Clint
Film Threat
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April 28, 2005 | Rating: 1/5

Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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Audience Reviews for Eddie

May 24, 2011

Whoopi is hilarious, and has got real-life Knicks fans thinking 'Why couldnt this happen in real-life?'

Jackson W Super Reviewer
Sep 14, 2009

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

Jason O Super Reviewer
Aug 28, 2009

A Pretty good Sports-Comedy. I enjoyed it alot. Not too funny, Not to unfunny. The Knciks as actually portrayed, are losing in the NBA, and Whoopie Goldberg Fanatic Knick's Fan, Gets to coach the Knicks, and Might actually get them into the playoffs.

Joseph E Super Reviewer
Nov 27, 2007

Trying to add bounce to her well worn flounce, Whoopi's the eponymous, mouthy basketball fan who's caught up in the machinations of rhinestone cowboy Wild Bill (Langella). Bill has been brought in to save New York's ailing basketball team, the Knicks, and plucks Eddie from the crowd to act as a rinky-dink mascot coach. But she's the real thing - grabs a'hold of those NBA boys, shakes 'em up and you can guess the rest. They're all present and correct, the elements of a Goldberg vehicle we've come to know and dread. What saves the film from abomination is the basketball. It may not look good (TV values reign), but the floor pounding games are edited to create real rushes of glee. The NBA stars, too, are superb, particularly real-life hoop-dreamer Sealy as arrogant golden boy Stacy Patton.

Martin D Super Reviewer