Film

Playin' for Love

2015 · 1h 24m · Comedy

An arrogant high school coach has his life turned upside down when a superstar player transfers to the school and his mother tries to take over the team.

IMDb

6.3

Coach Banks (Robert Townsend) is used to calling all the shots for his championship high school basketball team and in his own love life. But that’s about to change when he meets, Talisa McCoy (Salli Richardson-Whitfield), the mother of a star player, new to Jackson high. She’s a beautiful, strong-willed single mom, with her own ideas on a winning team…and the perfect man. Now, this coach will have to learn a few new plays if he’s going to stay in the game.

Salli Richardson-Whitfield

Talisa McCoy

Esai Morales

Principle Jose Marti

Jennifer Lewis

Alize Gates

Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

Coach Preston Reid

Robert Townsend

Coach Banks

Melyssa Ford

Bella

Steve White

Reesie

Bobby McGee

Milton Dudley

Elika Crespo

Shannon

Michael Jacques

Riley Shaw

Skye Townsend

Maya Hardaway

Kaleina Cordova

Marie head cheerleader

Kevin A. Walton

Cooty Sr.

Daniel Yorel Cooper

Justice McCoy

Paris McKinney

Destiny McCoy

Joseph Y'Shua

Ickarus Blake

• Robert TownsendDirector · Writer · Producer
• Michelle AmorWriter
• Cheryl L. WestWriter
• Lydia NicoleProducer
• Jason PriceExecutive Producer
• Isiah ThomasExecutive Producer
• Jeff FridayExecutive Producer
• John L. Demps Jr.Director of Photography
• Robert PergamentEditor

Playin' For Love - OFFICIAL TRAILER

Release date

January 16, 2015

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

NR

Genres

Comedy

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