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| Directed by | Steve Carr |
| Produced by | Robert Simonds |
| Written by | Jon Lucas Scott Moore |
| Starring | Martin Lawrence Wendy Raquel Robinson Breckin Meyer |
| Music by | Teddy Castellucci |
| Cinematography | Glen MacPherson |
| Editing by | Craig Herring |
| Studio | Robert Simonds Productions Runteldat Entertainment |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | July 1, 2005 |
| Running time | 103 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $17,492,014 |
Rebound is a 2005 comedy film directed by Steve Carr and starring Martin Lawrence as a banished college basketball coach who returns to his old middle school team to coach.
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Coach Roy McCormick (Martin Lawrence) was once college basketball's top mastermind. His attention began to turn on what endorsement contracts he could secure instead of actually coaching his team. Roy lets his temper get the best of him in most situations, and after accidentally killing an opposing teams mascot during a game, he is banned from coaching college basketball (again) until he can show that he can control his anger. Roy waits for a coaching position, yet nobody calls. Eventually, he receives only one offer: the Mount Vernon Junior High School, coach Roy's former basketball team is looking for somebody to coach their team, the Smelters. Roy reluctantly accepts the offer after being demoted from his state officer position, hoping that a few weeks at the school will prove his good intentions and restore him to his high-living ways as a celebrated college coach. As Roy begins coaching the squad, he gets into a situation that he has never been in before and doesn't know what happened to him. He eventually starts teaching the concepts of basketball to his new team. With the teaching and learning done between the two, the Smelters eventually start having success. The success leads Roy to find what he has been missing all this time, not a big coaching gig, not a high-dollar endorsement, but his simple love of the game.
Rebound received generally negative reviews; the film currently holds a 13% 'Rotten' rating on review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus "Rebound ought to entertain its target audience, but there's nothing here for those who've seen The Bad News Bears or its countless derivatives."[1]
The film opened on July 1, 2005 and grossed $5,033,848 in its opening weekend, hitting #7[2]; by the end of its run, the film had grossed $16,809,014 domestically and $683,000 internationally for a worldwide total of $17,492,014.[3]
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