Plot
Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet...

Release Year: 1986

Rating: 5.6/10 (5,212 voted)

Director: Michael Ritchie

Stars: Goldie Hawn, Swoosie Kurtz, Robyn Lively

Storyline
Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When the football coach's position becomes vacant, she applies for the job, despite expecting sniggers from fellow staff members and her former husband.

Cast:
Goldie Hawn - Molly McGrath
Swoosie Kurtz - Verna McGrath
Robyn Lively - Alice Needham
Brandy Gold - Marian Needham
James Keach - Frank Needham
Jan Hooks - Stephanie Needham
Bruce McGill - Dan Darwell
Nipsey Russell - Ben Edwards
Mykelti Williamson - Levander 'Bird' Williams (as Mykel T. Williamson)
Tab Thacker - Phillip Finch
Wesley Snipes - Trumaine
Jsu Garcia - Cerulo (as Nick Corri)
Woody Harrelson - Krushinski
Willie J. Walton - Marvel
Rodney Hill - Peanut

Taglines: Her dream was to coach high school football. Her nightmare was Central High.

Release Date: 14 February 1986

Filming Locations: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Opening Weekend: $5,472,905 (USA) (17 February 1986)

Gross: $26,285,544 (USA)

Runtime: 106 min

Trivia:
Film debut of Woody Harrelson.

Goofs:
Continuity: Krushinski is just demoted from starting quarterback. He mentions to Molly that he makes a great slot back. The next scene is of a slot back making a great run, only the slot back is black. He gets tackled and when he gets up you see a very white Krushinski with the ball.

Quotes:
Dan Darwell: I hate football.

One of the better sports comedies from the 1980's...

Rating: 8/10

WILDCATS was a funny and entertaining comedy with Goldie Hawn at the top of her form as a high school track coach, who wants more than anything to coach football (her late father was a football coach). She finally gets the opportunity to coach a high school football team at a tough inner city high school where the majority of the students are Africa American or Latino. Of course, Goldie's Molly McGrath meets the obvious resentments from high school boys that you would expect finding out their new coach is a woman, but she does eventually win them over, even at the risk of losing custody of her two daughters to her uptight ex-husband (James Keach). Nothing new or inventive here but Goldie lights up the screen presenting a smart yet flawed character trying to live her dream. Nipsey Russell has one of the best roles of his career as the principal of the school that hires her and there are some very funny moments provided by the members of the team, especially Woody Harrelson, Nick Corri, and in a star-making turn, a very young Wesley Snipes. Bruce McGill scores as a sexist coach from the opposing school, Prescott and Jan Hooks has some cute moments as GOldie's ex-husband's new girlfriend. I love the scene where Goldie outruns the boys on the team and calls them "pussies" and the rap song over the closing credits is hysterically funny. A terrific feel-good comedy starring a great actress at the zenith of her personal charm.

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