Formulaic drivel

Rating: 4/10 (25 May 2019)

This is the kind of film that Hallmark or Lifetime channels have made a mint producing. Standard, paint-by-numbers "plot" with zero surprises. Why didn't someone wake up Barbara Hershey? Did she think she was in a Night of the Living Dead sequel? Some producer must've seen the completed film and said a "love interest" should be included at the last second so this would be a good date movie. So after Ms Hershey grits her teeth for 70 minutes, Coach gives her a kiss in a cornfield (corny? You BET!) with ten minutes to go in the film. Yawn. And Dennis Hopper was severely under-used as a drunken savant, the Rainman of basketball, who knows everything about each and every high school team in the state. Oh, spoiler alert: the shortest kid in the history of high school b'ball wins a key game! Yes! Oh, so inspiring! This movie is so ridiculous it almost makes 'Rudy' look good. I said "almost".