Wildcats (1986)

• Year: 1986
• Released: 14 Feb 1986
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 2 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092214/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wildcats
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/wildcats
• Available in: 720p, 1080p, 720p
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Comedy, Sport
• Runtime: 106 min
• Writer: Ezra Sacks
• Director: Michael Ritchie
• Cast: Goldie Hawn, Swoosie Kurtz, Robyn Lively
• Keywords: sports, high school, chicago, illinois, american football, coach,

	6.0/10
	41/100
	26% – Critics
	49% – Audience

Wildcats Storyline

Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When the football coach’s position becomes vacant, she applies for the job, despite expecting sniggers from fellow staff members and her former husband.

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“Make a path for Coach McGrath!”

The plot for this film is a standard one we often see in high school or college sports stories, with a new coach taking on the difficult task of building a winning team out of a bunch of malcontents and losers. With Goldie Hawn in the role of Coach Molly McGrath, I was surprised and maybe even a little shocked with the amount of locker room humor and foul language thrown her way. In more than one case, I thought she should have been more assertive in her response, but then again, there wasn’t anybody around to back her up if any one of the players took a cheap shot at her. Oddly enough, this was the first time I can remember seeing Nipsy Russell in a movie. I recall catching him in any number of variety shows of the era, and he was something of a regular on those old Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts. His gig was reciting his own brand of poetry which was clever and witty. I thought he would come up with some rhymes here, but he didn’t come across with any.

If nothing else, the film is notable for the first movie appearances of both Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson, both quite recognizable, even if they were thirty years younger. A sidebar to the story involving Coach McGrath’s impending custody battle for her teenage girls is adequately resolved after causing a bit of consternation to the coach and players. Without a doubt and totally expected, Molly’s football team pulls one out for the championship in the last game of the season, beating her rival in a bit of a revenge grudge match after Dan Darwell (Bruce McGill) thought he pulled a fast one by getting Molly hired at Central High. You didn’t have to be a football fan to see that coming at the start of the picture.

Male preserve

If you folks remember that John Wayne/Donna Reed film Trouble Along The Way, Wayne is a divorced father living with his little daughter Sherry Jackson who has learned all about sports especially football from her dad who was a football coach. Imagine Sherry growing up to be Goldie Hawn and you have an idea of her character in Wildcats.

She wants to invade the male preserve of the boys sports because she knows a lot about the game, it comes naturally from her dad. But it isn’t that simple and the only job she can get is in Principal Nipsey Russell’s inner city school a really rough place.

Some future big names like Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson are some of Goldie’s players. Best however is Tab Thacker one mountain of a kid critical to defense, but Thacker requires special motivation.

She also has custody issues with her most uptight ex-husband James Keach and his extremely prissy wife Jan Hooks. Those kids from her team try to help, but mess things up.

This one is really Goldie’s show she has a fine comedy part with a bit of family drama thrown in. Basically because she has invaded that male holy of holys, the boy’s locker room.

It’s a good comedy, Goldie Hawn really shines.

standard white savior movie with a side of sexism

Molly McGrath (Goldie Hawn) is a divorced mother of two girls and a Chicago high school girls’ track coach. Verna (Swoosie Kurtz) is her sister best friend. Molly knows more about football than her male colleagues due to her late famed coach father. She wants to be the JV football coach but head coach Dan Darwell (Bruce McGill) picks the clueless home-ed teacher instead. He offers her the varsity coaching job at the rundown inner-city Central High. Levander ‘Bird’ Williams (Mykelti Williamson) is the local hustler and Ben Edwards is the principal. First, she has to win over the players.

Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson play two of the players. It’s a standard white savior movie with a bit of fun and a healthy side of sexism. It’s a bit funny but not too much. It’s nothing great. Goldie Hawn is solid. There isn’t anything special but it’s good enough.