{ "id": "ep865a2saa", "slug": "rebound-2005-film", "title": "Rebound (2005 film)", "updated": "2026-11-01", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films", "label": "Films and standalone screen works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance", "label": "Comedy and romantic films (individual works)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance.comedies-of-2005-to-2006", "label": "Comedies of 2005 to 2006", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance.comedies-of-2005-to-2006" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance.comedies-of-2005-to-2006", "label": "United States · 2001 to 2020: Comedies of 2005 to 2006", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance.comedies-of-2005-to-2006", "path": [ { "id": "geo.us", "label": "United States", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001", "label": "United States · 2001 to 2020", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films", "label": "Films and standalone screen works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance", "label": "Comedy and romantic films (individual works)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance.comedies-of-2005-to-2006", "label": "Comedies of 2005 to 2006", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance.comedies-of-2005-to-2006" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Rebound is a 2005 American family sports comedy directed by Steve Carr, starring Martin Lawrence as a college basketball coach banned after a public meltdown.", "snippet": "Rebound is a 2005 American family sports comedy directed by Steve Carr, starring Martin Lawrence as a college basketball coach banned after a public meltdown.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance.comedies-of-2005-to-2006", "markdown": "# Rebound (2005 film)\n\n**Rebound** is a 2005 American family sports comedy directed by Steve Carr, in which [Martin Lawrence](https://www.edgepedia.org/martin-lawrence) plays Roy McCormick, a temper-prone college basketball coach who is banned from the sport after a public meltdown and takes a job coaching a hapless middle school team to repair his reputation.[1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rebound) It was produced by Robert Simonds, written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore from a story by William Wolff, Ed Decter, and John J. Strauss, and distributed by 20th Century Fox.[2](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/63578-REBOUND)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Release | July 1, 2005 (wide), 20th Century Fox; DVD December 20, 2005[3](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0376108/) • [4](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/rebound) |\n| Director / writer | Steve Carr; screenplay by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore[2](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/63578-REBOUND) |\n| Lead cast | Martin Lawrence (Roy McCormick/Preacher Don), Wendy Raquel Robinson (Jeanie Ellis), Breckin Meyer (Tim Fink), Megan Mullally (Principal Walsh)[5](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0376108/credits/) |\n| Box office | $5,033,848 opening weekend in 2,464 theaters; $16,809,014 domestic; $17,492,014 worldwide[3](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0376108/) |\n| Budget | $33,100,000 per Box Office Mojo; $45,000,000 per The Numbers and FilmDB[3](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0376108/) • [6](https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Rebound) |\n| Critical reception | 15% Tomatometer from 89 reviews; 38% Popcornmeter from 50,000+ ratings on Rotten Tomatoes[1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rebound) |\n| Rating / genre | PG (mild language, thematic elements); comedy, family, sport[3](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0376108/) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot\n\nRoy McCormick is a wealthy, self-absorbed college basketball coach better known for his temper than his coaching. After he throws a basketball at an opposing team, the Vultures, killing the mascot's pet bird, and after missing the first half of a game for a magazine photo shoot, the league threatens him with a lifetime ban.[7](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/rebound-2005) His agent, Tim Fink ([Breckin Meyer](https://www.edgepedia.org/breckin-meyer)), finds a loophole in the league bylaws under which Roy can be reinstated if he coaches in a different league for a reasonable length of time, and sends him back to his old middle school in Ohio to oversee its team of losing players.[8](https://www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/movies/article/dull-predictability-keeps-rebound-on-the-bench-1177324.php)\n\nWhat begins as a public-relations exercise gradually changes Roy, who learns to care for his team, and his relationship with local mom Jeanie Ellis ([Wendy Raquel Robinson](https://www.edgepedia.org/wendy-raquel-robinson)) reinforces the change.[1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rebound) In the Time Out summary, Coach Roy leads the Mount Vernon Junior High Smelters to victory and reassesses his priorities.[9](https://www.timeout.com/movies/rebound) The team is made up of familiar misfit types: ball-hogging Keith (Oren Williams), nervous little Ralph (Steven Anthony Lawrence), snack-loving Goggles (Gus Hoffman), One Love (Eddy Martin), and Fuzzy (Logan McElroy), who cannot make a free throw; a tough girl named [Big Mac](https://www.edgepedia.org/big-mac) ([Tara Correa-McMullen](https://www.edgepedia.org/tara-correa-mcmullen)) has a sweet spot for the tall, shy Wes (Steven C. Parker).[4](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/rebound) • [7](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/rebound-2005)\n\n## Production and release\n\nThe project began elsewhere: DreamWorks put Rebound into turnaround in late 2003, and Fox picked it up, financing it for $33.1 million.[10](https://bombreport.com/yearly-breakdowns/2005-2/rebound/) The studio shuffled the release date from April 8 to July 22, then moved it to July 1, 2005 as counterprogramming against War of the Worlds, hoping for a modest $10 million over the four-day Independence Day holiday period.[10](https://bombreport.com/yearly-breakdowns/2005-2/rebound/) The film opened at number 7 with $5,033,848 for the weekend, declined 40 percent in its second frame, sank 57 percent in its third, and lost most of its theater count; it ran 12 weeks to a domestic total of $16,809,014.[6](https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Rebound) International receipts were minimal, $683,000, giving a worldwide total of $17,492,014.[3](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0376108/) Bomb Report counts it as Martin Lawrence's fourth consecutive flop and estimates Fox would have recouped about $9.5 million of the worldwide gross after theaters' shares, not covering the budget or prints-and-advertising costs.[10](https://bombreport.com/yearly-breakdowns/2005-2/rebound/) Among 2005's domestic releases it ranked 131st.[11](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2005/)\n\nReported budgets differ between trackers: [Box Office Mojo](https://www.edgepedia.org/box-office-mojo) and IMDb list $33,100,000, while The Numbers and FilmDB list $45,000,000.[3](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0376108/) • [6](https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Rebound) • [12](https://filmdb.co.uk/box-office/movie/rebound-2005-box-office) Running times also vary by source, from 86 minutes (Box Office Mojo, IMDb) to 103 minutes (Roger Ebert's review, Time Out), 111 minutes (Common Sense Media), and 130 minutes (AFI Catalog).[3](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0376108/) • [7](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/rebound-2005) • [4](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/rebound) • [2](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/63578-REBOUND)\n\n## Reception\n\nCritics placed the film squarely in the underdog sports-comedy tradition of [The Bad News Bears](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-bad-news-bears) and its derivatives. Rotten Tomatoes' critics consensus reads: \"Rebound ought to entertain its target audience, but there's nothing here for those who've seen The Bad News Bears or its countless derivatives.\"[1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rebound) Roger Ebert, the [Chicago Sun-Times](https://www.edgepedia.org/chicago-sun-times) critic who won the [Pulitzer Prize](https://www.edgepedia.org/pulitzer-prize) for criticism in 1975, gave the film two stars on June 28, 2005, writing that he could not recommend it except to younger viewers but did not dislike it, calling it \"'Coach Carter' Lite, and it does what it does.\"[7](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/rebound-2005) The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's William Arnold called it an abysmal movie with a script that has \"not an ounce of imagination,\" while noting that Lawrence's abrasive personality gradually grows on the viewer and several of the kids are moderately endearing.[8](https://www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/movies/article/dull-predictability-keeps-rebound-on-the-bench-1177324.php) The Deseret News gave it one and a half stars, comparing it unfavorably to the Will Ferrell soccer comedy Kicking & Screaming, which shares both the premise and the actor Steven Anthony Lawrence.[13](https://www.deseret.com/2005/7/1/20090926/film-review-rebound-not-worth-catching/) Common Sense Media, reviewing for parents, called it a tired comedy and noted mild language and physical comedy of the kids'-sports-movie kind, recommending it for ages 9 and up.[4](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/rebound)\n\nAudience response was warmer than the critics' but still negative: the Popcornmeter stood at 38 percent from more than 50,000 ratings.[1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rebound) In a retrospective ranking of basketball films by Tomatometer, Rotten Tomatoes placed Rebound at number 55.[14](https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/basketball-movies/)\n\n## Legacy\n\nThe film's commercial failure is documented as part of a run of underperforming Martin Lawrence vehicles in the mid-2000s, and its release strategy, a July 1 slot against War of the Worlds after two earlier date shifts, is cited as an example of a studio placing a low-expectation family title in counterprogramming.[10](https://bombreport.com/yearly-breakdowns/2005-2/rebound/) The film remains available digitally, streaming on Amazon Prime Video and available to rent or buy on platforms including Apple TV Store and Amazon Video.[15](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/rebound)\n\n## References\n\n1. [Rebound, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rebound)\n2. [Rebound (2005), AFI Catalog](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/63578-REBOUND)\n3. [Rebound (2005), Box Office Mojo](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0376108/)\n4. [Rebound, Parents' Guide & Movie Review, Common Sense Media](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/rebound)\n5. [Rebound (2005), Box Office Mojo credits](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0376108/credits/)\n6. [Rebound (2005), Box Office and Financial Information, The Numbers](https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Rebound)\n7. ['Rebound' fails to score, review by Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/rebound-2005)\n8. [Dull predictability keeps 'Rebound' on the bench, Seattle Post-Intelligencer](https://www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/movies/article/dull-predictability-keeps-rebound-on-the-bench-1177324.php)\n9. [Rebound 2005, directed by Steve Carr, Time Out](https://www.timeout.com/movies/rebound)\n10. [Rebound (2005): Martin Lawrence's 4th Consecutive Flop, Bomb Report](https://bombreport.com/yearly-breakdowns/2005-2/rebound/)\n11. [Domestic Box Office For 2005, Box Office Mojo](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2005/)\n12. [Rebound (2005) Box Office, FilmDB](https://filmdb.co.uk/box-office/movie/rebound-2005-box-office)\n13. [Film review: 'Rebound' not worth catching, Deseret News](https://www.deseret.com/2005/7/1/20090926/film-review-rebound-not-worth-catching/)\n14. [59 Best Basketball Movies, Ranked by Tomatometer, Rotten Tomatoes](https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/basketball-movies/)\n15. 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