A Good Film

David_Brown

Annie O is not a bad film, just predictable. If you ever saw " Bend It Like Beckham" ( with Parminder Nagra playing Jess a teenage girl having to decide on family traditions, and playing soccer and having to overcome many obstacles in order to follow her dreams), you get the story. Here, it is about Annie " Sureshot" Rojas ( Coco Yares) who is a girl playing on the boys basketball team, because there is no girls team at Washington High School. Of course, one of her big problems is there are a few people ( most notably her mom ( like in " Bend It Like Beckham")), who do not want her playing. spoilers ahead Her biggest supporter is Coach Cody ( Rob Stewart), who knows just how great she can be. In one scene School Principal Aragon says " She is one in a million" and he says " She is rarer than that." He then tells off her mom, because she wants her " to have a normal life like the rest of us." He tells her why she can't ( of course, mom knows the Coach has her best interest at heart so she lets him fix things ( after she was turned into a celebrity after helping the School win the Washington State High School Championship). The biggest problem with the film was a very sweet but contrived romance between Annie and star player " Wild" Bill Harper, because you knew that after the semester ( including where she beat him in a game of one on one, with the proceeds to start a girls team), that they will be going in different directions ( Wild" Bill getting a Scholarship at UCLA and Annie finishing High School and then moving on to a College of her choice). I give it 7 of 10 stars. A good film not great

score 7/10

David_Brown 30 August 2013

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw2860389/