Playin' for Love (2015)
Coach Banks (Robert Townsend) is used to calling all the shots for his championship high school basketball team and in his own love life. But that’s about to change when he meets, Talisa McCoy (Salli Richardson-Whitfield), the mother of a star player, new to Jackson high. She’s a beautiful, strong-willed single mom, with her own ideas on a winning team…and the perfect man. Now, this coach will have to learn a few new plays if he’s going to stay in the game.
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Cast
Salli Richardson-Whitfield
as Talisa McCoy
Salli Elise Richardson-Whitfield (born November 23, 1967) is an American television and film actress. She is known for her role as Dr. Allison Blake on the sci-fi TV series Eureka and her voice acting...
Esai Morales
as Principle Jose Marti
Esai Manuel Morales Jr. (born October 1, 1962) is an American actor. He has had notable roles in Bad Boys with Sean Penn and La Bamba with Lou Diamond Phillips. His television roles include the PBS 2...
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
as Coach Preston Reid
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs is an American actor and singer. He has appeared in a number of films and television programs, including Claudine (1974), Cooley High (1975), Roots (1977), Welcome Back, Kotter...
Robert Townsend
as Coach Banks
Robert Townsend (born February 6, 1957) is an American actor, director, comedian, and writer. Townsend is best known for directing the films Hollywood Shuffle (1987), Eddie Murphy Raw (1987), The Mete...
Melyssa Ford
as Bella
Melyssa Savannah Ford (born November 7, 1976) is a Canadian media personality, actress, and former video vixen. Since 2023, she hosted The Joe Budden Podcast alongside broadcaster and former rapper Jo...
Steve White
as Reesie
Steve White was born in March 1961. He is an actor and writer, known for Do the Right Thing (1989), Skin Deep (2003) and Clockers (1995)..
Director
Robert Townsend
