Coach Roy (MARTIN
LAWRENCE) once was college basketball’s top mastermind. But lately
his attentions have been on his next endorsements, not on his next
game. What’s more, Roy’s temper has run amuck, leading to his
being banned from college ball until he can “demonstrate
compliance” – in other words, not explode every time he walks onto
the court.
Roy waits – and waits
– for a suitable coaching offer, but he receives only one: a hastily
scribbled fax from… members of the Mount Vernon Junior High School
“Smelters”* basketball squad. Roy reluctantly accepts the
“offer,” hoping that a few weeks at the school will prove his good
intentions and restore him to his high-living ways as a celebrated
college coach.
But when “old school” meets “middle school,” Coach Roy
doesn’t know what hit him. The boys are hapless, possessing little
athletic skill and virtually no grasp of the fundamentals of
basketball. Roy’s first game as the Smelters’ coach sees the team
losing 0-109. And it looks like things are going only downhill from
there.
That is, until Roy
decides to teach his young charges some new concepts… like passing,
rebounding, dribbling, and scoring. As Roy’s coaching magic takes
the Smelters to a new place – the winning side of the scoreboard –
he finds something long thought lost: his love of the game.
REBOUND
Opens Nationwide
Friday July 1st, 2005
