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‘Champions’ review: Woody Harrelson is the coach of Special Olympics hopefuls in a movie with hits and misses

From left, Kevin Iannucci as Johnny, Kaitlin Olson as Alex, James Day Keith as Benny and Woody Harrelson as Marcus in "Champions."

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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