Sunset Park (1996) on Netflix
Phyllis Saroka teaches physical education at a New York City high school. Wanting money to open a restaurant, she takes over the boys basketball team, though she knows nothing of the game.
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- Rotten Tomatoes13%
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Plot summary
Sunset Park High School needs a coach for its boys basketball team, and the flyer asking for one catches the eye of Phyllis Saroka, who teaches physical education there. She wants the money to open a restaurant on St. Croix, so she takes the job, though she knows nothing about basketball. On her first day the players are skeptical, and she lets them call their own fouls and run their own plays. Her bad decisions in a game push her to learn the sport with help from the team. Tyrik "Shorty Doo-Wop" Russell and Bernard "Spaceman" Williams are on probation, Spaceman clashes with the teacher Morris Bernstein, and other players have academic trouble.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Sunset Park (1996)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The soundtrack album for Sunset Park featured one of the first solo appearances of the rapper Ghostface Killah.
