Home Team (film)

Home Team

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Directed by Allan A. Goldstein
Produced by Ross Grayson Bell
Morgan Freeman
Gene Hackman
Maurice Leblond
Screenplay by Jeff Lewis
Pierce O'Donnell
Starring Steve Guttenberg
Sophie Lorain
Ryan Slater
Release dates
 November 30, 1998 (Canada)
Running time
 91 minutes
Language English

Home Team is a 1998 comedy film starring Steve Guttenberg.

Plot summary

Mr. Butler is a former pro soccer player whose reputation for partying and gambling has caught up with him. He is sentenced to a year of probation, which includes working as a handyman in a dilapidated boys' home. Karen runs the home for a group of eleven boys whose parents could not raise them for some reason. Karen wants the boys to do something meaningful so she persuades them to start a soccer team known simply as "Home Team". They are terrible, but Mr. Butler, who has concealed his skills so far, is persuaded to coach the team, which eventually improves. A fire damages the home to the point that it must be torn down, and the boys will be separated, but efforts are made to keep the boys together. In a rematch, Home Team ends up defeating the first team they played on the way to a possible championship. The boys' cook Cookie, who likes to bet on horse races, made a bet with a Las Vegas bookie that Home Team would win; his winnings will be enough to get them a new house.

Cast

Production

Home Team was filmed in Montreal, Canada.

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