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Features • PAL In Theaters : 31 May, 1996 |
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Eddie [Region 2] description Whoopi Goldberg plays a loudmouthed, obsessive fan of the New York Knicks who wins a contest to coach the team. She soon finds that handling players is tough, fans are tough, owners are tough, and so on, but she's big enough to conquer them all with determination, smarts, and personality. The first half of the film is pretty cute as Goldberg's characte ... review details |
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| It seems that after her screen successes in THE COLOR PURPLE and GHOST, Whoopi Goldberg suddenly could do no right in Hollywood. Leastwise when she had a starring role. Well, give her SISTER ACT, but that was followed by a string of critical and commercial duds--silly comedies mostly, but also schmaltzy dramas. She did acquit herself well in cameo roles for prestige directors like Altman, but overall, she struggled. Like Bette Midler before her, she was finding that her larger-than-life persona somehow had trouble translating to the big screen.
Which may say more about the state of the movies than about either Midler or Goldberg. So when I finally got around to viewing EDDIE recently, I did not have high hopes for the film. Recuperating from surgery and suffering through a too long, too hot summer, I just wanted some lighter fare. In that sense, EDDIE proved to be a pleasant surprise. Sure it was kind of predictable, and as many have observed, it pretty much derails by the midway point. But Whoopi Goldberg as the Knicks fan-turned-coach gives a spirited, touching performance. Her initial awkward moments with team members ring true enough. The ways that attempts to reach out to team members range from the plausible (providing ad hoc marriage counseling to one) to the highly unlikely (learning enough Russian to begin to bridge the cultural and linguistic gap of a Russian born player). The contrived, feel-good ending (sort of a MS. DEEDS STAYS IN NEW YORK) brings the film down several notches on the origniality scale. But Whoopi Goldberg gives it all she's got--as does the rest of the cast. They wind up giving the movie pretty much all the appeal that it's got. Maybe that's part of the problem. Hollywood may figure that if it gives us enough star power, we won't notice the stultifying lack of originality. But Goldberg's post-GHOST career pretty much proves them wrong. Star wattage only gets you so far. EDDIE could have been a much better vehicle for Goldberg. She's game. Too bad the moviemakers were not. |
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