Movie Review 
     
    
   
   
    
     WILDCATS 
     
    
   
   
    
     By Nathan Stairs 
     
    

    
     Plain and simple, the Wildcats 
     
     are blah. Goldie Hawn has seen 
     
     better days, I can’t remember too 
     
     many of them, but this film cer- 
     
     tainly cannot be counted as one of 
     
     her goodies. 
     
    

    
     Goldie Hawn plays ‘Coach’ 
     
     MacGregor, the average divorced 
     
     housewife whose dream is to 
     
     coach a football team. She is given 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘February 27, 1986 
     
    
   
   
    
     the chance to fulfill her dream 
     
     when she takes over the Central 
     
     High School Football team. This 
     
    
   
   
    
     team looks amazingly like the 
     
     Chicago Bears. They have the cool 
     
     air-headed star quarterback, the 
     
     tough rap singers, and a refri- 
     
    
   
   
    
     gerator, make that a freezer. The 
     
     setting is in Chicago, the team 
     
     wears uniforms which are similiar 
     
     to the Bears’ and also have exactly 
     
     the same record. (If I spoiled the 
     
    
   
   
    
     plot, it was no accident.) 
     
    

    
     The movie lacks in many ways. 
     
     The film has no appeal, there is 
     
     no theme. It is the type of show 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     that you will forget whether or 
     
     not you actually saw it. There 
     
     were a few chuckles but it couldn't 
     
    
   
   
    
     be rated as a comedy. Goldie 
     
     Hawn and her Wildcats get a five. 
     
     A note of interest is that Goldie 
     
    
   
   
    
     Hawn’s husband, Kurt Russell, 
     
     was the co-star of another football 
     
     movie, The Best of Times, which 
     
    
   
   
    
     came out a month ago. Sounds 
     
     like there's a plot here, I know this 
     
     movie could have used one. 
     
    

    
     THE GEM 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
     Danny Mullen 
     
     Jim Lai , 
     
     David Stewart, 
     
     James Connolly 
     
     G. R. Boswell, 
     
     - Lynne Keating 
     
     Jonathan Orlowski 
     
     Shelli Wheaton, 
     
     Brian Linkletter, 
     
     Don Lane 
     
     Howard Beattie. 
     
     Nathan Stairs 
     
     Lori Anne Heckbert. Production 
     
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     Sheila Lund Editor 
     
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