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Coach

I found the DVD version of this movie at a rummage sale. The basic premise is an affair between a teacher/coach a student. The acting is weak and the plot razor thin. This movie had all the depth and plot development of an adult film.

Olympic gold running medalist Cathy Lee Crosby wrongly gets a job offer to coach the Granger Stallions at basketball. She has rifts with Granger (Keenan Wynn) and agrees to quit if she wins. The film is a turn on as she had an affair with a student and enters the boys shower. The movie spends more time on her illicit relationship than basketball. Guide: Nudity (Cathy Lee Crosby-brief and only film * scene, Robyn Pohle, Kristine Greco, Lenka Novak, Rosanne Katon)

Cathy Lee Crosby plays the title role in Coach and she's a former Olympic gold medal track star who takes a job as a high school basketball coach over the strong objections of Principal Keenan Wynn. Wynn is a man with fixed beliefs about gender roles and he wants to break her. Wynn channeled his performance in that Disney classic The Absent Minded Professor into this much inferior picture. As for Crosby she finds some romance with one of her star players Michael Biehn. He's quite the hunk in this film and set my gay mojo going. Of course Crosby would be canned if anyone discovered them. Biehn also fancies himself an amateur hypnotist and transforms a kid with some potential to another Magic Johnson. The same gambit was used by Abbott and Costello in Here Com The Coeds also a much better picture. This a good film for the drive-in trade. And you'll have to see Coach to understand the significance of jabberwocky.

Coach (1978), was a fun film to watch. Cathy Lee Crosby, did well on her performance as a coach. Especially, I even liked the segment when two students hypnotize Ned, to improve on his exams. This film, is not that bad but, forget the critics!!! This was not a bad basketball film, it seemed fun.

If you are looking for an academy award winner, this movie is not for you. It's just a fun romp back to the late '70s, when movies like this were geared to the teen/drive-in "party crowd" audience. Cathy Lee Crosby as the "hottie" coach that has an affair with one of her students is what made the movies at the drive-ins stand out from whatever was playing at the indoor theatres & even on TV! The fact that Crown International released this movie is also a testament that you know you're going to be in for something special. If you are a fan of B movies/classic drive-in movies, this one would be a valued addition to your video library.

This one acts as a satire during the women's rights movement era. Of course, that doesn't mean COACH (the movie) is a wonderful experience to behold. It runs into the same vein as FASTBREAK (which was better, but still tame), and is basically standard fare fluff. What I mean for this movie being uninteresting is simple to recognize. Anybody who serves time away from a normal job by training a bunch of lunatics earning their way to sudden victory makes waste. It's the same feeling you may get after watching this. A nice attempt at casting the opposite sex for a man's duty, but I expected better things.

A high school principal (Keenan Wynn) with a losing basketball team unwittingly hires a coach who turns out not only to be a gorgeous blond woman (Cathy Lee Crosby) but a catalyst for their new winning ways. Are you really surprised? Along the way a romance grows between the coach and the team's star player Jack (Michael Biehn). The police are never notified. Packaged along with other Crown International Pictures as a grindhouse movie really does this film no service. This can easily be edited into a television movie of the week. Cathy Lee Crosby looks great as coach Randy Rawlings especially in her skimpy outfits but I expected more than mere titillation from an R-rated film. A side plot involving a dorky center who is hypnotized by his teammates into thinking he is former NBA player Sydney Wicks is the actual reason for the team's new success rather than Cathy Lee's coaching. Too much tease and not enough sleaze makes this a major disappointment.