Wildcats is a
1986 motion picture starring
Goldie Hawn and costarring
Jan Hooks and
Swoosie Kurtz. It also features
LL Cool J and is the first film to feature
Wesley Snipes and
Woody Harrelson. They also appeared together in
White Men Can't Jump and
Money Train.
Molly (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 girl's track at an affluent junior high 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.