How well you'll tolerate this formula sports comedy depends on your Whoopi Goldberg threshold: If this wealthy dowager's ongoing impersonation of a sassy, libidinous prole strikes you as something other than bogus and intolerably smug, you'll probably love it. Goldberg plays
a loudmouth New York limo driver who runs smack into a plot contrivance and winds up coaching the New York Knicks; various real-life hoopsters, notably one-time Madonna squire Dennis Rodman, are on hand as excuses for predictably vulgar one-liners. The nicest thing we can say for EDDIE is that it
isn't the sequel to HOMER & EDDIE, a blessedly obscure little movie that you won't be finding on Wh...
Released:
1996
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
98 mins