Eddie Page #7

Synopsis: Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketball team. The team is struggling with a mediocre record when, in mid-season, "Wild Bill" Burgess, the new owner, as a public relations gimmick, stages an 'honorary coach' contest, which Eddie wins. The fans love it, so "Wild Bill" fires the coach and hires her. She takes the bunch of overpaid prima donnas that make up the team and turns them around. But the owner hopes to move the team, now the darling of the New York fans, to St. Louis. He may OWN the team, but it BELONGS to the city and the fans!
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Director(s): Steve Rash
Production: Hollywood Pictures
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
15%
PG-13
Year:
1996
100 min
485 Views


- Don't force it!

- Rebound! Go!

Run! Run!

- [ Whistle Blows ]

- Yeah, baby! Right in his mouth!

- [ P A Announcer ]

Foul on double-zero

- [ Eddie ] Ivan!

- Ivan Radovadovitch, his fifth!

- You moved your feet!

- Team's fourth

- Nyet! Nyet! Don't move the feet!

Sparks, get ready to go

Where? Oh

He can't possibly be

that stupid

Come on

What did I tell you?

What have I said to you every day?

- Sit down!

- [ Buzzer Sounds ]

Mama

[ Crowd Laughing, Applauding ]

[ Screaming, Laughing Continues ]

- Yeah! How's that for ya?

- My goodness!

He really showin' you up, man

- What's up with your boy, man?

- It's a joke

- Yo, yo, "B"! This boy's retarded, man

- You're a joke, Sparks

You don't have to

act like a rookie

Hey, Patton, pass the ball!

What are you, the black hole

of basketball? Come on!

- You gonna let her

call you a black "ho"?

- Man, a hole, not a "ho "

- A black hole

- What's a black hole?

A black hole is

a theoretical object in space

It is so dense

that matters collapses

and light itself cannot escape

[ Crowd Cheers ]

I knew that

What's a "ho"?

Now with Ivan in foul trouble, they'll

have to rely even more on Stacy Patton

I got two, I got two

- [ Eddie ] Hey! Yeah!

- [ Crowd Cheering ]

Yes! Yes!

Here we come

Here we come

Pass the ball!

Drop, John, drop!

Swing it, swing it!

- Stacy, hit the cutter!

- Patton, Patton, pass the ball!

- Stacy, what the--

- Let's go, baby! Get a stop!

Pick left, Darren!

Ivan, you gotta talk, baby!

Hey, what you doin'

in the game, sport?

- [ Crowd Groaning ]

- [ Players Continue Chattering ]

Here we go!

You know when they runnin'!

You know when they runnin'!

Watch the pick!

- Hit the cutter!

- He's open, he's open, he's open!

- Oh, man! Call the first foul!

- Preacher, 20

Twenty-second time out, white

[ Eddie ] Mr Patton, come here

Come here You got any juice

left in those knees?

- Yeah Why?

- You're in

- What are you doing?

- I'm rockin' the boat

- What you tryin' to say to Stacy Patton?

- I'm not trying to say it

I'm telling Stacy Patton

to get his black ass off my court!

You are out of the game!

[ Organ ]

- It's about damn time

- Whoa, Darren, relax, relax

- Sit down, clown

- [ Patton ] Man, forget you

- Yo, let's play together,

let's win this game

- Lead us, baby, lead us

[ Applause, Cheering ]

Stacy Patton is being benched

for the first time this year

and he is not happy about it

- [ Buzzer Sounds ]

- [ P A Announcer ]

Now in for the Knicks

- number six,

Nate Wilson for Stacy Patton

- [ Crowd Cheering ]

- Coach

- Zim

[ Player ] Get the ball! The ball!

- Pick up, pick up!

- You better hope

they ain't comin' to you

Yeah, baby!

By yourself, by yourself!

- Got you, got you, got you!

- Short!

Let's go, let's go, let's go!

Take your time!

Talk to each other!

Hit the cutter!

Hit the cutter!

Whoa!

[ Hastings ] Yes, sir, Nate!

Good job, man!

Nate Wilson has awakened

the sleeping Knicks, who look awesome!

- [ Eddie Laughs ]

- Yes, baby! Get it goin'!

Come on!

Come on!

[ Hasting ]

I love that transition!

Post up! Post up!

Run with him!

Run with him!

Watch the pick!

- Move, move, move, move!

- Get a score, baby! Get a score!

- Trailer, trailer, trailer!

- Put it up!

[ Buzzer Sounds ]

[ Claudine Screaming ]

An extremely satisf ying win

for the New York Knicks

and their new coach

Eddie Franklin

who, in a bold move,

substituted veteran Nate Wilson

for superstar Stacy Patton!

Good game, Nate!

- Thanks, Coach

- Those knees earned this

- Eddie!

- Here, kid

Thanks! He gave me the ball!

He gave me the ball!

[ Shouting, Hooting ]

- It's only one win, Zim

- Mmm

[ Eddie ] Come on, let's go!

- Ten out, 17 out!

- Bye-bye

Thank you

Maybe next time

- [ Eddie ] Fifteen, killed!

- Okay, over!

Two, three, four, gone

[ Eddie ] Hustle! Hustle!

Come on, Nate!

Yeah, yeah, yeah!

[ Buzzer Sounds ]

Yeah, I still got it

I still got it

- [ Shouting, Hooting ]

- Yeah!

- It's only two wins

- Hmph

- [ Eddie ] Six, out!

- Thank you very much

Okay, up and over

- Yeah

- Out

- Get out!

- Yeah! Come on! Come on!

Aaaah! This is the one!

I'm telling you, look at that--

Whoo!

[ Laughs ]

He's so flexible!

Honey, flex your ass on up to my room

later on, okay? Thank you

Mr Burgess

- [ Bill Laughing ]

- [ Crowd Cheering ]

Defense!

Come on! Defense!

[ Crowd Chanting, Clapping ]

Defense! Defense!

Defense! Defense!

- [ Chanting, Clapping Continues ]

- Get up! Get up!

Get up!

[ Chanting, Clapping Continues ]

[ Muffled ]

Uh, the chicken chow mein

- Throws it here, here-- [ Mumbles ]

- Huh?

Comes back--

Oh, I shouldn't have done that

[ Shouting, Hooting ]

Okay, so it was three in a row

Ha!

Hi!

Ooh, I like this

This is nice

Don't you just love a man in uniform?

All right, Miss Thing

Who's the big cheese?

Oh, my God

I think it's a little much

for the court Don't you?

No, no, no

What? What? No!

It's, you know, good for you

[ Buzzer Sounds ]

Am I late?

Don't look at me like that

I'm wearing Armani

- You go, girl

- [ Laughs ]

[ Continues ]

Yeah, Preach

- [ Continues ]

- You go! You go!

You go! You go!

You go!

- [ Continues ]

- [ Buzzer Sounds ]

- Owww!

- Nate, talk to that kid

before he's out of the league

Way to use your head, bro

- [ Continues ]

- [ Crowd Clapping Rhythmically ]

Excuse me, Miss Head Coach

Could you come over here for a minute?

Since you think you know everything,

let's see if you know these steps

- Look, I know--

- Follow me Come on Here we go

- [ Continues ]

- Huh! Walk back! Walk back!

[ Players Laughing ]

Hey! Hey!

Wiggle with it!

[ Players Talking, Laughing ]

- [ Crowd ] Hey!

- What happened?

Now you goin' off on your own thing

- All right You bad! You bad!

- I know I'm bad!

- Okay, girl, you got it!

- Yes, thank you

- Thank you

- Hey! Hey! Okay, guys, let's go!

- Sing it, baby! I believe it!

- [ Crowd Cheering ]

[ Laughing, Talking ]

- What you got, boy? What you got?

- [ Eddie ] Defense!

- You did that move ten years ago

- Defense!

- Defense!

- [ Whistle Blows ]

- [ Crowd Booing ]

- [ Eddie ] What?

- That's not a foul!

- On the arm! White, six!

- For what?

- [ Blows Whistle ]

[ Crowd Screaming, Cheering ]

[ Blows Whistle ]

Get up!

What is this?

It's a living

To me it looks like two of New York's

most respected retailers love Eddie

- Eddie is the best thing

to happen to New York

- since David Letterman

[ Together ]

She's very nice

- How much is the T-shirt?

- Eighteen bucks

- Uh, how do you say "rip-off"

in your language?

- [ Speaks Foreign Language ]

How are you feeling

about Eddie Franklin now?

I wish I could get the tickets

back from the wife, you know

Actually, hiring Eddie was

my idea from the beginning

I'll let him know

Bye

Guess what

Bailey got the coaching job

with the Charlotte Hornets [ Laughs ]

- Bailey, huh?

- Yeah

- What's the matter, Zim?

- No, it's--

I was kinda up for that job

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