Whoopi Goldberg’s: EDDIE (1996 )

Chauffeur Edwina “Eddie“ Franklin (Whoopi Goldberg) is fanatical about the New York Knicks basketball team. After she wins a contest to be their honorary assistant coach, Eddie so impresses the team’s owner (Frank Langella) that he fires the head coach, John Bailey (Dennis Farina), and replaces him with Eddie. She is instrumental in turning the floundering team around, just in time to make the playoffs. There, they will face the Charlotte Hornets -- now led by former Knicks coach Bailey. Whoopi Goldberg as Edwina “Eddie“ Franklin Frank Langella as William “Wild Bill“ Burgess Dennis Farina as Coach John Bailey Richard Jenkins as Carl Zimmer Lisa Ann Walter as Claudine John Benjamin Hickey as Joe Nader John Salley as Nate Wilson Mark Jackson as Darren “Preachor“ Taylor Malik Sealy as Stacy Patton Dwayne Schintzius as Ivan Radovadovitch Rick Fox as Terry Hastings Greg Ostertag as Joe Sparks Vernel Singleton as Jamal Duncan