Trivia
Champions
Directed by Bobby Farrelly · starring Lauren Cochrane, Woody Harrelson and Kaitlin Olson
- 7 facts
- 2023
Champions: trivia
All 7 facts
- 1
Good partners
Woody Harrelson had high praise for costar Madison Tevlin after working with her on the film. "She's not a great basketball player, but she is a movie star", he said.
- 2
Remake
Remake of the Spanish film 'Campeones' (2018).
- 3
Sports comedy experts
Director Bobby Farrelly directed Woody Harrelson in 'Vaya par de idiotas' (1996), a sport comedy about bowling.
- 4
Singer Harrelson
Just as the credits start rolling, Woody Harrelson is playing the piano and singing a song which he composed. (The song is named Phoenix.)
- 5
Realist actors
The players of the basketball team are disabled actors.
- 6
Basket's second
This is Ernie Hudson's second movie about basketball after 'Diario de un rebelde' (1995).
- 7
Background
Before this, John Larroquette did this basic story in his NBC movie One Special Victory (1991), where his insensitive character was sentenced by a judge to coach a basketball team of disabled people and is then transformed during the process. That film was inspired by the true story in the 1990 book "B-Ball: The Team That Never Lost a Game" by Ron Jones (who was that real-life coach, in San Francisco).