Marcus has asked one of the assistant coaches with his former team, Sonny, who has an uncle that is a manager with the NBA, to help him find a new job but his uncle refuses. Johnny becomes angry with Marcus for hurting his sister and lying to him and refuses to play, but during halftime of a game, Consentino lets him know he isn't playing for coach, he's playing for the rest of the team, so he needs to get over it. Following this, Alex tells Marcus they are over. Marcus realizes that Alex quietly uses her daily routine taking care of Johnny as an excuse to break up with boyfriends before Johnny can grow attached to them. Alex becomes defensive and tells Marcus to stay out of family business and he leaves the home, but Alex confronts him in the yard. Johnny becomes more attached to Marcus and invites him to dinner and once there, Marcus shares Johnny's news about moving into a shared house with some of The Friends. Fortunately, Marcus and the team convince her to be their driver for away games. The team is kicked off the bus when the team "disrupts" the other passengers and Johnny calls his sister to pick them up in her Shakespeare travel van. Since one of the team members, Darius, refuses to play for Marcus, a previously injured player, Consentino is put back in the rotation. The team begins to improve and Marcus soon realizes the players are more than just their skills as he gets to know them. He and Alex begin a casual sexual relationship while he learns how to coach the new team. At the end of the first practice, he accepts a ride home with Johnny, one of the players, only to find the driver is a former Tinder one night stand and Johnny's sister, Alex. He agrees to community service and soon realizes coaching this team will be a personal and professional challenge. When Marcus appears for his hearing, the judge gives him a choice of 18 months in prison, or 90 days community service with a basketball team for people who have learning disabilities, The Friends. He then tells Marcus he's been let go by the owners. Phil explains why he didn't listen and advises Marcus to get to know players more, that they have personal lives that affect their playing. He gets into an argument with Phil, believing he was right and if Phil had listened, none of the previous night would have happened. After leaving the stadium, he gets drunk at a bar and while driving home hits a police car, ending up in jail. Marcus Marakovich, a hot-tempered, but skilled assistant coach, with a minor league basketball team in Iowa, lets his temper get the best of him during a game and shoves the head coach, Phil. The film received mixed reviews from critics and has grossed $18 million. The film stars Woody Harrelson as a temperamental minor-league basketball coach who after an arrest must coach a team of players with intellectual disabilities as community service Kaitlin Olson, Ernie Hudson, and Cheech Marin also star.Ĭhampions was released in the United States on March 10, 2023, by Focus Features. It is an English-language remake of the 2018 Spanish film of the same name. Champions is a 2023 American sports comedy film directed by Bobby Farrelly in his solo directorial debut, from a screenplay written by Mark Rizzo.
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