Storyline
Two years after a Super Bowl win when NFL head coach Sean Payton is suspended, he goes back to his hometown and finds himself reconnecting with his 12-year-old son by coaching his Pop Warner football team.
Directors
Writers
Cast
Taylor Lautner, Dan Patrick, Jackie Sandler, Rob Schneider, Kevin James, Jared Sandler, Gary Valentine, Isaiah Mustafa, Lavell Crawford, Bill Cowher, Maxwell Simkins, Bryant Tardy, Jacob Perez, Tait Blum, Chloe Fineman, Manny Magnus, Liam Kyle, Christopher Farrar, Merek Mastrov, Sean Payton, Tracy Wolfson, Jim Nantz
Trailer
Reviews
67
Home Team is one of the most conceptually-strange cinematic ventures I’ve ever seen, an image management exercise disguised as a scruffy kids comedy.
30
Kevin James is at once the film’s most obvious brand signifier and its most surprising asset: As a heavily fictionalized Payton, his surly hangdog energy gives this corndog of a movie what flavor it has.
25
Pretend it’s not a “true story” and it’s still a shallow representation of sports, parenthood, and comedy, with almost no laughs.
25
I think I laughed once.
20
The New York Times
It’s yet another comedy of indignities — sorry, make that inanities.
