Ladybugs

1992
PG-13
1h 30m

IMDb RATING

5.5/10

11K

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Soccer Comedy Sport

To climb the corporate ladder to success, a guy agrees to coach the company's all-girls soccer team with the help of his secret weapon: his fiancee's son.To climb the corporate ladder to success, a guy agrees to coach the company's all-girls soccer team with the help of his secret weapon: his fiancee's son.To climb the corporate ladder to success, a guy agrees to coach the company's all-girls soccer team with the help of his secret weapon: his fiancee's son.

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IMDb RATING

5.5/10

11K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 3 nominations total

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Trivia
Near the beginning of the film, Jonathan Brandis' character Matthew calls Rodney Dangerfield's character Chester, "Chesterfield." Brandis had a habit in real-life of referring to certain friends in jest by adding "field" to the end of their names. It is rumored by some who knew him that he carried this over into the film and ad-libbed "Chesterfield" as an inside joke.

Goofs
Chester is talking to Matthew from the van and Matthew is holding a football. A teacher asks Matthew if he is all right and we see Matthew holding his backpack and not the football. Earlier, Matthew left his backpack with his friend, who threw him the football.

Quotes
Dave Mullen: You have five seconds to get Kimberly out of there.
[Chester hesitates]
Dave Mullen: There's nothing to think about. Get her out of there.
Chester: Look, we're not in your office now. Out here, I call the shots.
Dave Mullen: Looks like I misjudged you, Chester. I guess you don't care about your future with this company.
Chester: Right now, all I care about is this team.
Dave Mullen: Chester, you've forgotten what's important to you.
Chester: I didn't forget. You forgot. What's more important? That strangers look up to you or your own kid? Kimberly's playing today! And if it means my job, too bad.
Dave Mullen: Look, Chester, I just want to win today. I only want the best out there.
Chester: The best, the best. That's all I keep hearing. You want to be the best. Let me ask you this, what good is being the best if it brings out the worst in you?

Alternate versions
When this movie is aired on network television, particulary the Disney Channel, TNT, and TBS, one line is shortened in the scene where Chester talks to the bartender. In the theatrical release, when the bartender asks what happened, Chester says "Well...I took her son...dressed him up as a girl, and talked him into playing with me". Then he is kicked out of the bar. In the TV version, he says "Well, I took her son, dressed him up as a girl.." Then we see him get kicked out. The reason for this cut is probably because it is too sexually suggestive.

Connections
Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: Beau Bridges/Bernadette Peters/Rodney Dangerfield (1992)

Soundtracks
Psych Em' Out
Written & Performed by D.A. Young
Published by Shelley / Young Publishing and Rud Mor Music Publishing

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Featured review

6/10

fine with low expectations

Top salesman Chester Lee (Rodney Dangerfield) is desperate for a promotion to pay for his upcoming wedding. The big boss needs a new coach to lead his sponsored championship girls soccer team especially with his daughter Kimberly Mullen (Vinessa Shaw) joining. In order to impress him, Chester pretends to be a former soccer player and takes over the coaching job with his assistant Julie (Jackée Harry). It's a rebuilding year with only one player returning. The girls are not good. In desperation, Chester recruits his girlfriend's troubled son Matthew (Jonathan Brandis) to play with the girls. It helps that Matthew has a crush on Kimberly.

It's a convoluted premise although not the worst. It's trying too hard. It's easy to see why this was critically panned. To begin with, it's not well-made. Brandis is a pretty boy which helps in the cross-dressing. His tragic end is still a decade away. At this point, he still could be the next big thing. I would have thought that he would try to teach her soccer while being a boy. He could be his own twin and they could do more screwball comedy with that idea. This does have Rodney being Rodney and there are some surprisingly adult jokes. It comes down to expectations. It could be passable for kids and Rodney fans. I don't think there is too much crossover with those two groups.