Playin' for Love
Film201584 min5.0/10 on TMDB
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Directed by Robert Townsend
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.
The story
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Salli Richardson-WhitfieldTalisa McCoy
Esai MoralesPrinciple Jose MartiJennifer Lewis
Jennifer LewisAlize Gates
Lawrence Hilton-JacobsCoach Preston Reid
Robert TownsendCoach Banks
Melyssa FordBella
Steve WhiteReesie
Bobby McGeeMilton Dudley
Elika CrespoShannonMichael Jacques
Michael JacquesRiley Shaw
Skye TownsendMaya Hardaway
Kaleina CordovaMarie head cheerleaderExplore the crew
- Writer
- Cheryl L. West
- Director
- Robert Townsend
- Editor
- Robert Pergament
- Writer
- Michelle Amor
- Writer
- Robert Townsend
- Director of Photography
- John L. Demps Jr.
- Producer
- Robert Townsend
- Producer
- Lydia Nicole