Wildcats is a 1986 film

1986 in film

-Events:*April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle.*April 26 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver.*May - Actress Heather Locklear marries Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee....

 starring Goldie Hawn

Goldie Hawn

Goldie Jeanne Hawn is an American actress, film director, producer, and occasional singer. Hawn is known for her roles in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Private Benjamin, Foul Play, Overboard, Bird on a Wire, Death Becomes Her, The First Wives Club, and Cactus Flower, for which she won the 1969...

 and costarring Jan Hooks

Jan Hooks

Janet V. "Jan" Hooks is an American actress and comedienne best known for her work on NBC's Saturday Night Live , on which she appeared from 1986 to 1991...

 and Swoosie Kurtz

Swoosie Kurtz

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. It is the film debut of Wesley Snipes

Wesley Snipes

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 and Woody Harrelson

Woody Harrelson

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. They also appeared together in White Men Can't Jump

White Men Can't Jump

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and Money Train

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. LL Cool J

LL Cool J

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 made a guest appearance in this film also.

Synopsis

Molly McGrath (Goldie Hawn), is the daughter of a famed football coach who's dying to head her own team. When her wish is finally granted, Molly leaves her job coaching girls' track at an affluent high school (Prescott High School) to take over a football team at an inner-city high school (Central High School)--the kind of place where guard dogs are needed to patrol the campus. At first the new coach’s idealism and optimism are suffocated with racial and gender prejudice, but eventually her overriding spirit begins to whip her unruly team into shape. At the same time, she must also struggle to win a battle for the custody of her two young daughters. The real test for Molly comes when her Central High team faces Prescott in the city championship.

Filming

Wildcats used Lane Technical College Prep High School

Lane Technical College Prep High School

Albert G. Lane Technical College Preparatory High School , is a public, four-year, magnet high school located on the north side of Chicago...

 football stadium for some of their shots.

Color-changing Woody Harrelson

There is a scene in the movie where #89, who is supposed to be Woody Harrelson

Woody Harrelson

Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson is an American actor.Harrelson's breakthrough role came in the television sitcom Cheers as bartender Woody Boyd...

is seen running down the field and is clearly an African-American, he gets hit and it is revealed to be the actor. This is a noted error, brought up on the segment "Shit That Should Not Be" on the Hollywood Babble-On podcast, available at http://www.smodcast.com/