Champions

 

 

 

 

Champions

Champions is a 2023 American sports comedy film directed by Bobby Farrelly in his solo directorial debut, from a screenplay written by Mark Rizzo. It is an English-language remake of the 2018 Spanish film of the same name. The film stars Woody Harrelson as a temperamental minor league basketball coach who, after arrest, must coach a team of players with intellectual disabilities as community service; Kaitlyn Olson, Ernie Hudson, and Chish Marin also star

with
Woody Harrelson, Kaitlin Olson, Cheech Marin, Matt Cook
Duration
2h 03min
Gender
Comedy
Directed by
Bobby Farrelly
Language
english

Harrelson is first known for his role as waiter Woody Boyd in the NBC sitcom Cheers (1985-1993), for which he won the Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a comedy series from a total of five nominations. He reprised his role in the popular spin-off series Frasier for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series nomination
He has received three Academy Award nominations: Best Actor for the people opposite Larry Flynt (1996), Best Supporting Actor for both the messenger (2009) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017). Other notable films include white guys can't jump (1992), Natural Born Killers (1994), screw (1996), The Thin Red Line (1998), no country for Old Men (2007), Zombieland (2009), barricade (2011), Seven Psychopaths (2012), now you see me (2013), edge of Seventeen (2016), LPG (2016), solo: star the story of wars (2018), the man from Toronto (2022) and the triangle of sorrow (2022). He also gained fame for his portrayal of Haymitch Abernathy in the Hunger Games film series (2012-2015)
Harrelson received further Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a limited series or movie for his portrayal of Steve Schmidt in the HBO film Game Change (2012), and for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Marty Hart in the HBO crime anthology series True Detective (2014). He portrays E. Howard Hunt in the HBO political limited series White House plumbers (2023)

Harrelson is widely known for his work on the NBC sitcom Cheers. He played the role of waiter Woody Boyd, who replaced the coach (played by Nicholas Colasanto, who died in February 1985). He joined the cast in 1985 for the fourth season, and spent the last eight seasons (1985-1993) on the show. For this role, Harrelson was nominated for five Emmy Awards, winning once in 1989. His character, Woody Boyd, was from Hanover, Indiana, where Harrelson attended college. In 1999, Harrelson starred as a guest in the successful episodic cheers Fraser, where he reprised the role of Woody Boyd. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a comedy series for this performance. He appeared in several 2001 episodes of Will & Grace as Grace's new boyfriend Nathan
On the November 12, 2009, episode of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert interviewed Harrelson to promote his film The Messenger. In response to Colbert's questioning of his support for the troops, Harrelson agreed to allow Colbert to shave his head on camera. Harrelson returned to television in 2014, starring with Matthew McConaughey in the first season of the HBO crime series True Detective, playing Marty Hart, a Louisiana cop who investigates murders that have occurred over 17 years
On June 6, 2010, Harrelson took part in the 2010 Unicef UK Soccer Aid game at Old Trafford in Manchester. The match was broadcast live on ITV television in the United Kingdom. Having been brought on as a substitute for Gordon Ramsay, Harrelson took the last penalty kick in the penalty shootout, after a 2-2 draw after 91.2 minutes. Despite initially being unaware of exactly where his kick should be executed, Harrelson scored to win the match for the "rest of the world" team, beating England for the first time since the start of the tournament. When interviewed later, he claimed that he " didn't even remember the moment of recording
Harrelson also participated in the 2012 Pro Bowl on May 27, 2012. The match ended 3-1 in favor of England
Harrelson is set to star in the HBO political limited series White House plumbers (2023) where he will portray intelligence officer E. Howard Hunt. The series will focus on the Watergate scandal and the investigation. Harrelson also executive produced the series

Markus marakovich, a short-tempered, but skillful assistant coach, with a minor league basketball team in Iowa, lets his nerves get the best of him during the game and pushes the head coach, Phil. After leaving the stadium, he gets drunk in a bar and while driving home he crashes into a police car, ending up in prison. The next day he was rescued by an elephant. He got into an argument with Phil, believing that he was right and if Phil had listened, none of the previous night would have happened. Phil explains why he is not listened to and advises Marcus to get to know the players more, that they have a personal life that affects their gameplay. Then he told Marcus that he was abandoned by the owners
When Marcus shows up for his hearing, the judge gives him a choice of 18 months in prison, or 90 days of community service with a basketball team for people with learning disabilities, friends. He agrees to serve the community and soon realizes that training this team will be a personal and professional challenge. At the end of the first practice, he accepts a ride home with Johnny, one of the guys, only to find the driver is a former Tinder one-night stand and Johnny's sister, Alex. He and Alex begin a casual sexual relationship while he learns how to coach the new team
The team begins to improve and Marcus soon realizes that the players are more than just their skills when he gets to know them. Since one of the team members, Darius, refuses to play with Marcus, a previously injured player, Constantino is put back into the rotation. The team is thrown off the bus when the team "disrupts" the other passengers and Johnny calls his sister to pick them up in her Shakespeare travel van. Fortunately, Marcus and the team persuaded her to be their driver in away matches
Johnny becomes more attached to Marcus and invites him to dinner and as soon as he arrives, Marcus shares Johnny's news about moving into a shared house with some friends. Alex becomes defensive and asks Marcus to stay away from the family business and leaves the house, but Alex confronts him in the yard. Marcus realizes that Alex is quietly using her daily routine of taking care of Johnny as an excuse to break up with her friends before Johnny becomes attached to them. After that, Alex tells Marcus that they are done. Johnny gets angry at Marcus for hurting his sister and lying to him and refuses to play, but during the first half of the match, Constantino tells him that he is not playing with the coach, he is playing with the rest of the team, so he needs to get past him
Marcus asks one of the assistant coaches with his former team, Sonny, who has an uncle who is an NBA manager, to help him find a new job but his uncle refuses. Sonny drives Marcus for a while, hoping that they will become friends but they realize that Marcus was nice to him to get a job in the NBA. When Marcus realizes how manipulative he is, he asks Sonny to help him train friends and he agrees
Benny, one of the guys who works at a restaurant, has been unable to play in matches because his boss refuses to let him adjust his schedule. As soon as the team manages to reach the semifinals, he tells his boss that he should be able to adjust his schedule to play for the team and is fired, but now he is able to play and is one of the main scorers. Marcus and Phil meet by chance at a restaurant and Phil lets Marcus know that Darius, his teammate who refuses to play for Marcus, had a promising career before he was involved in a terrible car accident and ended up with brain damage. Marcus realizes that it was a drunk driver who hit Darius and goes to his house to apologize and explain that he will never drive drunk again, but he understands why Darius did not play for him. Realizing that he needs to be able to forgive the woman who hit him, Darius decides to start with Marcus and agrees to go to the finals of the Special Olympics in Winnipeg
Marcus receives news that he has been hired by the NBA team in Seattle as a third assistant, but Alex tells him that they are using his good story as a cover for their scandal. When he tells friends that he is moving to Seattle, they cannot make themselves happy, knowing that it will take him away and Johnny will get angry with him again. The director of the community center, Julio, tells Marcos that the city does not have the money to send the players to Canada, so Marcos creates a scheme with Alex to blackmail the owner of the restaurant where Benny worked and they can attend the finals. Friends are intimidated by the size and name of the opposing team, monsters, and this appears in their play, so when they are frustrated during the first half, Marcus puts forward all the situations he conquered and calls them heroes. Upon returning to court, Johnny climbs the stairs to have his" hero " moment by telling Alex that he is moving in with his friends
Friends gathered during the second half and are one point away from winning, so Marcus is trying to set up a play that will make Darius shoot the last shot. The assistant coach says it's a bad idea because the other team knows that Darius is the best player and they will be everywhere. Marcus begins to scold him as Phil did to him but catches himself and realizes that the Assistant is right and sets up a wolf pickaxe game with Johnny. The play works and Johnny is about to make the basket when another player, Showtime, yells open and Johnny passes the ball to him, only for Showtime to make his trademark move with a backhand. He misses the basket but hits the rim, and the team goes wild because he has never hit the rim. This results in the team losing, but they still see themselves as heroes due to Marcus ' enthusiastic talk
Marcus decides not to take the Seattle job, realizing that Alex was right, and offers him a local coaching job at Drake University. His former assistant takes over the coaching of friends, Marcus and Alex begin dating, and Johnny moves in with his friends in the common house

Directed by
Bobby Farrelly 

 Robert Leo Farrelly Jr. (born June 17, 1958) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He is one of the Farrelly brothers, along with his brother Peter, and together they are known for directing and producing strange and slightly insulting comedies such as stupid and stupid, Shallow Hal, Me, Myself and Irene, there's something about Mary, and the 2007 remake of Heartbreak Kid

Farrelly grew up in Cumberland, Rhode Island, to Marian, a nurse practitioner, and Dr. Robert Leo Farrelly.His grandparents were Irish immigrants, and he also has Polish ancestry.He is a graduate of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he entered the school on a hockey scholarship
Bobby and his brother Peter Farrelly are known as the Farrelly brothers. They have written, directed and produced several comedy films including Dumb And Dumber, there's something about Mary, screw, Shallow Hal, Me, Myself & Irene and stuck on you, as long as the temperature, and Havana's lost son. They filmed the Seinfeld episode "The Virgin" (4.10)
In 2014, Bobby and Peter directed dumb and Dumber To, a sequel to their 1994 blockbuster hit Dumb and Dumber
In 2016, Bobby directed two episodes of the 10th season of the cult Canadian mockumentary TV series Trailer Park Boys
In 2020, Bobby and Peter directed the chibi comedy series now