Home Team

PLOT

Mr. Butler is a former pro soccer player whose reputation for partying and gambling has caught up with him. He is sentenced to a year of probation, which includes working as a handyman in a dilapidated boys' home. Karen runs the home for a group of eleven boys whose parents could not raise them for some reason. Karen wants the boys to do something meaningful so she persuades them to start a soccer team known simply as "Home Team". They are terrible, but Mr. Butler, who has concealed his skills so far, is persuaded to coach the team, which eventually improves. A fire damages the home to the point that it must be torn down, and the boys will be separated, but efforts are made to keep the boys together. In a rematch, Home Team ends up defeating the first team they played on the way to a possible championship. The boys' cook Cookie, who likes to bet on horse races, made a bet with a Las Vegas bookie that Home Team would win; his winnings will be enough to get them a new house.

CAST

Steve Guttenberg as Henry Butler

Sophie Lorain as Karen

Ryan Slater as Julian

Michel Perron as Cookie

Carl Alacchi as Larkin

Johnny Morina as Alex

Tyler Hynes as Chip

David Deveau as Pineapple

Frank Schorpion as Vince

Richard Jutras as Semary

Ashton Lane Jersey as Meghan

Kathleen Fee as Social Service Woman

Willy Lavendel as Charlie

Chad Connell as Eric

Anthony Etesonne-Bedard as Four Eyes

Eric Lightbourne as Goodbye

Brian Paul Imperial as Gregory