Playin' for Love (2013)
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.
84 min
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.
- Release date
- June 23, 2013
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Esai Morales as Principle Jose Marti
- Jenifer Lewis as Alize Gates
- Salli Richardson-Whitfield as Talisa McCoy
- Robert Townsend as Coach Banks
- Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs as Coach Preston Reid
- Elika Crespo as Shannon
- Skye Townsend as Maya Hardaway
- Melyssa Ford as Bella
- Bobby McGee as Milton Dudley
- Steve White as Reesie
Crew
- Robert Townsend · Director
- Michelle Amor · Writer
- Robert Townsend · Writer
- Cheryl L. West · Writer
- Lydia Nicole · Producer
- Robert Townsend · Producer
- John L. Demps Jr. · Cinematographer
- Robert Pergament · Editor
- Ed Arenas · Casting director
- Peter Cordova · Production designer