NR1h 24m2015
Playin' for Love
“An arrogant high school coach has his life turned upside down when a superstar player transfers to the school and his mother tries to take over the team.”
Comedy
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Coach Banks (Robert Townsend) is used to calling all the shots for his championship high school basketball team and in his own love life. But that’s about to change when he meets, Talisa McCoy (Salli Richardson-Whitfield), the mother of a star player, new to Jackson high. She’s a beautiful, strong-willed single mom, with her own ideas on a winning team…and the perfect man. Now, this coach will have to learn a few new plays if he’s going to stay in the game.
- Director
- Robert Townsend
- Writers
- Michelle Amor, Cheryl L. West, Robert Townsend
- Language
- English
- Release date
- 16 January 2015
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Cast
Salli Richardson-Whitfield
Talisa McCoy
Esai Morales
Principle Jose Marti
Jennifer Lewis
Alize Gates
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
Coach Preston Reid
Robert Townsend
Coach Banks
Melyssa Ford
Bella
Steve White
Reesie
Bobby McGee
Milton Dudley
Elika Crespo
Shannon
Michael Jacques
Riley Shaw
Skye Townsend
Maya Hardaway
Kaleina Cordova
Marie head cheerleader
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