Last week, for my regular “Movies” segment on The Chris Vernon Show, I ignored box office and went with another kind of topical theme, tying the list to the start of football season — or, at least the start of the NFL season, which is the only football season I really care about. The top four picks here were obvious and unavoidable. I struggled with the fifth slot, and ended up going with a childhood nostalgia pick I probably haven’t seen in at least a couple of decades:
5. Wildcats (1986): Goldie Hawn is the daughter of a famous football coach who longs for her own chance to patrol the sidelines and leaves her job as a girls’ track coach at a ritzy high school to take a football coach job no one wants at a rough school. Notable for being the big-screen debuts of both Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson: Yes, six years before White Men Can’t Jump, they got their starts together as teammates in another sports comedy.
