''Switching Goals'' is a 1999
television film
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directed by
David Steinberg
David Steinberg (born August 9, 1942) is a Canadian comedian, actor, writer, director, and author. At the height of his popularity, during the late 1960s and mid 1970s, he was one of the best-known comics in the United States. He appeared on ...
and starring
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Fuller Olsen (born June 13, 1986), also known as the Olsen twins as a duo, are American fashion designers and former actresses. The twins made their acting debut as infants playing Michelle Tanner on the television s ...
.
Plot
Thirteen-year-old twin sisters Sam and Emma Stanton are opposites growing up in Evansville. Sam is a star
soccer
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player and a
tomboy
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; however, she wants to attract boys. Emma is a popular
girly girl who enjoys fashion and make-up, but she wants to be better at sports. Their dad Jerry, one of the Soccer coaches, is pressured by his wife Denise to pick Emma for the Hurricanes
co-ed
Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to t ...
team. Just as Jerry is about to pick Sam for his team after Round 2 of Soccer Tryouts is over, the Buzzards coach Willard Holmes picks Sam. But Sam is not thrilled to join a team which hasn't won in years and Emma finds it difficult to please her dad so the girls come up with a scheme to switch places in soccer so each can be on the team they prefer. As a result, Sam learns about letting others share the spotlight and Emma and Jerry finally become closer. Their mom catches them and the girls have to go back to their original teams. When everyone else is mad at them Sam and Emma both decide to quit soccer, but Jerry refuses to let them give up the sport. Denise becomes the Buzzards new coach to prove her husband wrong and actually gets the team into the finals. Along the way Emma realizes her skill as a goalie and becomes a better athlete. At the finals the Hurricanes regular goalie Richie gets injured while blocking a kick and is replaced by Emma. At 20 seconds left Sam kicks the ball into the goal, and it is blocked by Emma, tying the game. The Buzzards and the Hurricanes become co-champions of the Youth soccer league organization tournament. Sam gets a date with Greg. Richie goes on a date with Emma. Jerry learns to treat his daughters equally and that winning isn't everything.
Cast
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Ashley Olsen
Ashley Fuller Olsen (born June 13, 1986) is an American businesswoman and former actress. She began her acting career at the age of nine months, sharing the role of Michelle Tanner with her twin sister Mary-Kate Olsen in the television sitcom ...
as Emma Stanton
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Mary-Kate Olsen
Mary-Kate Olsen (born June 13, 1986) is an American businesswoman, fashion designer, equestrian, and former actress. She began her acting career nine months after her birth, sharing the role of Michelle Tanner with her twin sister Ashley Olsen ...
as Sam Stanton
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Kathryn Greenwood as Dr. Denise Stanton
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Eric Lutes
Eric Lutes (born August 19, 1962) is an American actor, known for his roles as Del Cassidy on '' Caroline in the City'', Jerry Stanton in ''Switching Goals'', and Jake Carlson on ''So Little Time'' (which starred both Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley O ...
as Coach Jerry Stanton
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Joe Grifasi
Joseph G. Grifasi (born June 14, 1944) is an American character actor of film, stage and television.
Grifasi was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Patricia (née Gaglione) and Joseph J. Grifasi, a skilled laborer. Grifasi graduated from Bi ...
as Dave
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Trevor Blumas
Trevor Blumas (born October 16, 1984) is a Canadian television and film actor and singer-songwriter.
Early life and career
Blumas was born in London, Ontario, Canada. Trevor Blumas went to school at the Lester B. Pearson School for the Arts, s ...
as Greg Jeffries
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Keith Knight as Coach Willard Holmes
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Jake LeDoux
Jake LeDoux (born 2 May 1985 in Port Perry, Ontario) is a Canadian actor.
In the movie ''Summer's End'' from 1999, he appeared together with Wendy Crewson and James Earl Jones. In 2000 was nominated to "Young Artist Award" in category: "Best ...
as Richie
* Calvin Rosemond as Frankie
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Michael Cera
Michael Austin Cera (; ; born June 7, 1988) is a Canadian actor and musician. He started his career as a child actor, voicing the character of Brother Bear on the children's television show ''The Berenstain Bears (2003 TV series), The Berenstain ...
as Taylor
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Robert Clark Robert, Bob, or Bobby Clark may refer to:
Television and film
*Robert Clark (actor) (born 1987), American-born Canadian television actor
*Bob Clark (1939–2007), Canadian filmmaker
* Bob Clark (television reporter), retired American television re ...
as Robert "Helmet Head"
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Brian Heighton as Jim
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Ted Atherton
Ted Atherton is a Canadian actor. He is best known as Myles Leland III in the TV series '' Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye''.
Early life
He moved with his family to Scarborough, Ontario when he was 13. He went to the University of Toronto and obtained a bac ...
as Mitch
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Vito Rezza as Sal
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Damir Andrei as Arden
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Michael Lamport
Michael may refer to:
People
* Michael (given name), a given name
* Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael
Given name "Michael"
* Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and ...
as Adrian
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Jesse Farb as Oscar
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Marcello Melecca as Danny
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Judah Katz
Judah Katz (born June 23, 1960) is a Canadian actor born in Montreal, Quebec. He has worked in Toronto and Los Angeles for more than 30 years, appearing in both TV series and films.
Winning an ACTRA award (now called a Gemini Award) for his v ...
as Mike
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Joseph Yawson as Sean Mark
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Moynan King as Taylor's mom
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Joanna Reece as Bobby's mom
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Wendy Haller as Teacher
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Adrian Griffin
Adrian Darnell Griffin Sr. (born July 4, 1974) is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played in the NBA as a shooting guard ...
as Referee
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Alex House
Alexander Charles Albert House (born December 11, 1986) is a Canadian actor best known for his Gemini Award winning role in the television series ''Todd and the Book of Pure Evil''.
Early life
House was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canad ...
as Kid at arcade
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Alexi Lalas
Panayotis Alexander "Alexi" Lalas ( el, Αλέξης Λάλας; born June 1, 1970) is an American retired soccer player who played mostly as a defender. Lalas is best known for his participation with the United States men's national soccer te ...
as Himself
See also
*
List of association football films
The following is a list of films featuring association football.
List
See also
*List of sports films
*List of highest-grossing sports films
References
{{Sports films
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References
External links
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United Soccer Leagues
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American television films
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Films about twin sisters
2000s English-language films
Films set in Illinois
Women's association football films
Twins in fiction
Films scored by Patrick Williams
Films shot in Toronto
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American direct-to-video films
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