Ladybugs

Ladybugs (1992)

Genres - Comedy, Sports & Recreation, Drama  |   Sub-Genres - Comedy of Errors, Farce, Screwball Comedy  |   Release Date - Mar 27, 1992 (USA)  |   Run Time - 91 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - PG13
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Synopsis by Paul Brenner

Rodney Dangerfield plays it cute in this comedy directed by veteran director Sidney J. Furie. Dangerfield plays Chester Lee, a man so anxious for a promotion that he agrees to coach a girl's soccer team his company is sponsoring. If the team has a winning season, Chester will get his promotion. The only problem is that Chester knows nothing about soccer and the team is incompetent. If Chester doesn't get his raise he won't be able to marry his sweetheart Bess (Illene Graff), so he persuades his son Matthew (Jonathan Brandis), who is an expert soccer player, to don a wig and join the team as one of the girls. With Matthew on the team, they make their way to the championship, but Bess discovers the ruse and forces Chester to chose between her and the job.

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deception, fixed [corruption], sports, coach, friendship, rival, role-switching, soccer, underdog, upward-mobility