‘Champions’ review: Woody Harrelson is the coach of Special Olympics hopefuls in a movie with hits and misses
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Mar 09, 2023
2 minutes
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Lots of people will find lots to like in “Champions,” a seriocomic story of how young men and one woman, Special Olympics basketball hopefuls with intellectual and developmental disabilities, turn their arrogant coach, played by Woody Harrelson into less of a jerk.
The setup works in roughly equivalent fashion to how “Green Book,” directed by Bobby’s brother Peter Farrelly, handled racial prejudice and
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