Champions
2023
4.6
Champions

'Champions' trivia and fun facts

Remake

Remake of the Spanish film 'Campeones' (2018).

Good partners

Woody Harrelson had high praise for costar Madison Tevlin after working with her on the film. "She's not a great basketball player, but she is a movie star", he said.

Basket's second

This is Ernie Hudson's second movie about basketball after 'Diario de un rebelde' (1995).

Background

Before this, John Larroquette did this basic story in his NBC movie One Special Victory (1991), where his insensitive character was sentenced by a judge to coach a basketball team of disabled people and is then transformed during the process. That film was inspired by the true story in the 1990 book "B-Ball: The Team That Never Lost a Game" by Ron Jones (who was that real-life coach, in San Francisco).

Singer Harrelson

Just as the credits start rolling, Woody Harrelson is playing the piano and singing a song which he composed. (The song is named Phoenix.)

Sports comedy experts

Director Bobby Farrelly directed Woody Harrelson in 'Vaya par de idiotas' (1996), a sport comedy about bowling.

Realist actors

The players of the basketball team are disabled actors.

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