Rebound

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Rebound

PG

2005

1h 23m

Kids & Family

Comedy

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15%

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89 Reviews

38%

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Roy McCormick (Martin Lawrence) is a college basketball coach more famous for his temper than for his coaching ability. After one of his rages gets him banned from the sport, Roy takes a job coaching basketball at a middle school in an attempt to repair his reputation. Amazingly, what Roy began as a show of rehabilitation begins to genuinely change him, and he learns to care for his team. His relationship with local mom Jeanie (Wendy Raquel Robinson) is a good influence as well.

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Critics Consensus

Rebound ought to entertain its target audience, but there's nothing here for those who've seen The Bad News Bears or its countless derivatives.

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Joshua Land

Village Voice

07/06/2005

Lawrence coasts on star power, genially sending up his bad-boy persona.

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Sara Michelle Fetters

MovieFreak.com

07/05/2005

2.5/4

Don't misunderstand me. This isn't a very good picture by any stretch of the imagination. All I'm saying is that it isn't a bad one, Carr and Lawrence keeping things relatively bouncy and benignly innocuous...

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Daniel Fienberg

Zap2it.com

07/05/2005

1.5/4

An underdog sports saga that skips nary a cliche on its nearly laughless journey.

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Micheal Compton

Bowling Green Daily News

11/18/2019

A lazy, half-hearted attempt at comedy that gets the award for being the most predictable film of 2005.

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

04/16/2009

D

Even the teenaged misfit audiences to whom "Rebound" is targeted will lose patience with the film's uninspired gags and lazy writing.

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Ethan Alter

Film Journal International

03/01/2007

An adequate video babysitter, but kids and parents alike would have a better time simply rewatching The Bad News Bears.

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Stephen C

@bob25009 07/11/2025

Funny in 1 hour and 23 minutes. A success in home media. The worldwide gross is $17,492,014.00, less than the budget of $33,100,000.00.

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thiago s

@Thiagostone 04/25/2025

Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, a história é fraca, os personagens sao fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes para fazer o filme ser bom.

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Rosana B

@RosanaBotafogo 01/04/2025

Bem bobinho e infantil, que passa uma mensagem de otimismo e força de vontade para as crianças, tristemente foi o único papel de protagonista Tara Correa no cinema, ela foi assassinada em um tiroteio de gangue, três meses após o lançamento do filme, faleceu aos 16 anos, ela não era atriz, quando sua mãe, que estava trabalhando para uma empresa de elenco na época, recomendou sua filha para o papel… Um filme bobinho que deixa nosso coração quentinho...

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KerryWhite's S

@KerryWhite77 04/01/2024

Rating: 6/10. 63/100

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Jerod S

@jeroduptown 12/25/2022

Lawrence anchors a basketball version of "Bad News Bears" early 2000s style.

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02/11/2018

It's not at all an original concept, but this rag tag group provides enough joy to make it worth a watch

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Synopsis

Roy McCormick (Martin Lawrence) is a college basketball coach more famous for his temper than for his coaching ability. After one of his rages gets him banned from the sport, Roy takes a job coaching basketball at a middle school in an attempt to repair his reputation. Amazingly, what Roy began as a show of rehabilitation begins to genuinely change him, and he learns to care for his team. His relationship with local mom Jeanie (Wendy Raquel Robinson) is a good influence as well.

Director: Steve Carr
Producer: Robert Simonds
Screenwriter: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Robert Simonds Productions
Rating: PG (Thematic Elements|Mild Language)
Genre: Kids & Family, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 1, 2005, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $16.8M
Runtime: 1h 23m
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.37:1)