Playin' for Love

An arrogant high school coach has his life turned upside down when a superstar player transfers to the school and his mother tries to take over the team.

Playin' for Love — Plot

Coach Banks (Robert Townsend) is used to calling all the shots for his championship high school basketball team and in his own love life. But that’s about to change when he meets, Talisa McCoy (Salli Richardson-Whitfield), the mother of a star player, new to Jackson high. She’s a beautiful, strong-willed single mom, with her own ideas on a winning team…and the perfect man. Now, this coach will have to learn a few new plays if he’s going to stay in the game.

• Release date
• January 16, 2015
• Runtime
• 84 min
• Genres
• Comedy
• Director
• Robert Townsend

Playin' for Love — Cast

Salli Richardson-Whitfield Talisa McCoy Esai Morales Principle Jose Marti

J

Jennifer Lewis Alize Gates Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs Coach Preston Reid Robert Townsend Coach Banks Melyssa Ford Bella Steve White Reesie Bobby McGee Milton Dudley